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Saerom Park

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology · Computer Science

About the Lab

Professor Saerom Park's research lab specializes in privacy-preserving machine learning, with a focus on developing secure and fair algorithms using homomorphic encryption and confidential computing. The lab investigates secure training and inference for machine learning models, particularly support vector machines, while protecting sensitive data and model integrity. Another key direction involves fairness-aware machine learning and auditing frameworks that ensure non-discrimination without compromising data privacy. The lab also explores practical applications in finance and environmental science, integrating machine learning with real-world data challenges such as market impact prediction and pore-scale environmental modeling.

homomorphic encryptionfair machine learningprivacy-preserving AIsecure model trainingconfidential computing

Research Overview

Papers
91
Total Citations
1,388
Papers (5y)
40
Primary Field
Computer Science

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
40total
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Citations per year (5y)
188total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|84 citations·2015
Application of cellulose/lignin hydrogel beads as novel supports for immobilizing lipase
Saerom Park, Sung Hee Kim, Ji Hyun Kim, Hyejeong Yu, Hyung Joo Kim, Yung‐Hun Yang, Hyungsup Kim, Yong Hwan Kim, Sung Ho Ha, Sang Hyun Lee
Journal of Molecular Catalysis B Enzymatic
Molecular BiologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
2
Article|55 citations·2014
Wood mimetic hydrogel beads for enzyme immobilization
Saerom Park, Sung Hee Kim, Keehoon Won, Joon Weon Choi, Yong Hwan Kim, Hyung Joo Kim, Yung‐Hun Yang, Sang Hyun Lee
SJR Q1Carbohydrate Polymers
Molecular BiologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
3
Article|49 citations·2020
HE-Friendly Algorithm for Privacy-Preserving SVM Training
Saerom Park, Junyoung Byun, Joohee Lee, Jung Hee Cheon, Jaewook Lee
SJR Q1IEEE AccessOA

Support vector machine (SVM) is one of the most popular machine learning algorithms. It predicts a pre-defined output variable in real-world applications. Machine learning on encrypted data is becoming more and more important to protect both model information and data against various adversaries. While some studies have been proposed on inference or prediction phases, few have been reported on the training phase. Homomorphic encryption (HE) for the arithmetic of approximate numbers scheme enable

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
4
Article|27 citations·2019
Semi-supervised distributed representations of documents for sentiment analysis
Saerom Park, Jaewook Lee, Kyoungok Kim
SJR Q1Neural Networks
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
5
Article|21 citations·2022
Privacy-Preserving Fair Learning of Support Vector Machine with Homomorphic Encryption
Saerom Park, Junyoung Byun, Joohee Lee
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022

Fair learning has received a lot of attention in recent years since machine learning models can be unfair in automated decision-making systems with respect to sensitive attributes such as gender, race, etc. However, to mitigate the discrimination on the sensitive attributes and train a fair model, most fair learning methods have required to get access to the sensitive attributes in training or validation phases. In this study, we propose a privacy-preserving training algorithm for a fair support

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
6
Article|20 citations·2022
Fairness Audit of Machine Learning Models with Confidential Computing
Saerom Park, Seongmin Kim, Yeon-sup Lim
Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022

Algorithmic discrimination is one of the significant concerns in applying machine learning models to a real-world system. Many researchers have focused on developing fair machine learning algorithms without discrimination based on legally protected attributes. However, the existing research has barely explored various security issues that can occur while evaluating model fairness and verifying fair models. In this study, we propose a fairness audit framework that assesses the fairness of ML algo

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
7
Article|20 citations·2022
Efficient differentially private kernel support vector classifier for multi-class classification
J.-G. Park, Yujin Choi, Junyoung Byun, Jaewook Lee, Saerom Park
SJR Q1Information Sciences
Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
8
Article|16 citations·2016
Predicting Market Impact Costs Using Nonparametric Machine Learning Models
Saerom Park, Jaewook Lee, Youngdoo Son
SJR Q1PLoS ONEOA

Market impact cost is the most significant portion of implicit transaction costs that can reduce the overall transaction cost, although it cannot be measured directly. In this paper, we employed the state-of-the-art nonparametric machine learning models: neural networks, Bayesian neural network, Gaussian process, and support vector regression, to predict market impact cost accurately and to provide the predictive model that is versatile in the number of variables. We collected a large amount of

Management Science and Operations ResearchDecision Sciences
9
Review|14 citations·2018
Biopolymer-Based Composite Materials Prepared Using Ionic Liquids
Saerom Park, Kyeong Keun Oh, Sang Hyun Lee
SJR Q2Advances in biochemical engineering, biotechnology
BiomaterialsMaterials Science
10
Article|10 citations·2021
Microfluidic pore model study of precipitates induced by the pore-scale mixing of an iron sulfate solution with simulated groundwater
Saerom Park, Theresia May Anggraini, Jaeshik Chung, Peter K. Kang, Seunghak Lee
SJR Q1ChemosphereOA

Precipitates induced by the pore-scale mixing of iron sulfate solutions with simulated groundwater were investigated using a microfluidic pore model to assess the environmental impacts of the infiltration of acid mine drainage into a shallow aquifer. This model was employed to visualize the formation of precipitates in a porous network and to evaluate their physicochemical influences on pore flow. Four types of groundwater (Na-HCO<sub>3</sub>, Na-SO<sub>4</sub>, Na-Cl, and Ca-Cl) were evaluated,

Environmental ChemistryEnvironmental Science
11
Article|10 citations·2019
Loss-Driven Adversarial Ensemble Deep Learning for On-Line Time Series Analysis
Hyungjin Ko, Jaewook Lee, Junyoung Byun, Bumho Son, Saerom Park
SJR Q1SustainabilityOA

Developing a robust and sustainable system is an important problem in which deep learning models are used in real-world applications. Ensemble methods combine diverse models to improve performance and achieve robustness. The analysis of time series data requires dealing with continuously incoming instances; however, most ensemble models suffer when adapting to a change in data distribution. Therefore, we propose an on-line ensemble deep learning algorithm that aggregates deep learning models and

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
12
Article|8 citations·2018
Information-Based Boundary Equilibrium Generative Adversarial Networks with Interpretable Representation Learning
Junghoon Hah, Woojin Lee, Jaewook Lee, Saerom Park
Computational Intelligence and NeuroscienceOA

This paper describes a new image generation algorithm based on generative adversarial network. With an information-theoretic extension to the autoencoder-based discriminator, this new algorithm is able to learn interpretable representations from the input images. Our model not only adversarially minimizes the Wasserstein distance-based losses of the discriminator and generator but also maximizes the mutual information between small subset of the latent variables and the observation. We also trai

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
13
Article|6 citations·2020
Privacy‐preserving evaluation for support vector clustering
Junyoung Byun, J. Lee, Saerom Park
SJR Q3Electronics LettersOA

Abstract The authors proposed a privacy‐preserving evaluation algorithm for support vector clustering with a fully homomorphic encryption. The proposed method assigns clustering labels to encrypted test data with an encrypted support function. This method inherits the advantageous properties of support vector clustering, which is naturally inductive to cluster new test data from complex distributions. The authors efficiently implemented the proposed method with elaborate packing of the plaintext

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science
14
Article|6 citations·2019
Security-preserving Support Vector Machine with Fully Homomorphic Encryption.
Saerom Park, Jaewook Lee, Jung Hee Cheon, Ju-Hee Lee, Jaeyun Kim, Junyoung Byun
Scholarworks@UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology)

Recently, security issues have become more and more important to apply machine learning models to a real-world problem. It is necessary to preserve the data privacy for using sensitive data and to protect the information of a trained model for defending the intentional attacks. In this paper, we want to propose a security-preserving learning framework using fully homomorphic encryption for support vector machine model. Our approach aims to train the model on encrypted domain to preserve data and

Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionComputer Science
15
Article|6 citations·2019
Learning of indiscriminate distributions of document embeddings for domain adaptation
Saerom Park, Woojin Lee, Jaewook Lee
SJR Q3Intelligent Data Analysis

Natural language processing (NLP) is an important application area in domain adaptation because properties of texts depend on their corpus. However, a textual input is not fundamentally represented as the numerical vector. Many domain adaptation methods for NLP have been developed on the basis of n umerical representations of texts instead of textual inputs. Thus, we develop a distributed representation learning method of words and documents for domain adaptation. The developed method addresses

Artificial IntelligenceComputer Science

Research Areas

Artificial IntelligencePollutionInformation SystemsAerospace EngineeringSociology and Political ScienceBiomedical Engineering

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