Heung Youl Youm

Heung Youl Youm

Dr Heung Youl Youm is a vice chair of ITU-T TSAG from October 2024 and was a SG17 chair from October 2026 to October 2024. He began participating in ITU-T SG 17 in 2003 and has actively contributed to the work of SG17 as a core member of security experts. He was an associate Rapporteur of SG 17 Question 10/17 from 2003 to 2004. For the Study Period (2005 – 2008), he served as a Rapporteur of Question 9/17. He was a Vice Chair of ITU-T Study Group 17 from 2009 to 2016. He was a Chair of Working Party 2 (Application Security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2009–2012) and was a Chair of Working Party 3 (Identity management and cloud computing security) of SG17 for the Study Period (2013–2016). He has been a Project Editor for many approved ITU-T Recommendations or agreed Supplements in DLT security, authentication/application protocols, de-identification techniques, USN/IoT security, 5G security, and cybersecurity. He has been working for the Department of Information Security Engineering in Soonchunhyang University, Korea since September 1990. He is currently the Director of SCH Cybersecurity Research Centre from Dec. 2013. He has been a Chair for the ISMS/PIMS certification committee in Korea since 2007. He is a member of the self-performance evaluation committee for the Korea personal Information Protection commission He was a Commissioner for Personal Information Protection Commission from August 2020 to August 2023. and was a Board member for the Korea Information/Security Agency from May 2020 to July 2022. He was a member of advisory committee to the Korea national security office for the Office of the President, Republic of Korea from October 2018 to May 2022, a president of KIISC (Korea Institute on information security and cryptology) in 2011 and is an emeritus president of KIISC. He had worked for ETRI as a senior research engineer from 1982 to 1990. He had been involved in developing high speed transmission system. He received a bachelor’s degree in 1981, a master’s degree in 1983, and a Ph.D. degree in 1990, all in Electronics Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea.

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    Soonchunhyang University, Korea (Rep. of)
  • Profession
    Professor (emeritus), Dept. of Information Security Engineering
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In person
8 July 2026
09:00 - 12:15
EST - New York
CST - Beijing
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AWST - Perth, Australia

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