Awards

Roll of Honors

Congratulations to the EBISION 2026 award recipients for their outstanding contributions to E-Business Information Systems.

July 8–10, 2026Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea
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Distinguished Lecturer Award

Junji Shikata

Yokohama National University, Japan

Professor Junji Shikata has advanced the foundations of cryptography and information security for over two decades, spanning information-theoretic cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, and authentication, with results in the field's most selective venues and honors such as the Wilkes Award. His work reaches from theory to deployment: schemes he developed were standardized within ITU-T Study Group 17 as Recommendation X.1366 and Technical Report TR.ba-iot. Through leadership in CRYPTREC, the JSPS, and the IEICE Technical Committee on Information Security, he combines first-rate scholarship, real-world impact, and dedicated service to the global security community.

Antonio F. Skarmeta Gómez

University of Murcia, Spain

Professor Antonio F. Skarmeta Gómez is a leading expert in computer networks, the Internet of Things, cybersecurity, and distributed systems, with more than three decades of contributions. As Full Professor at the University of Murcia and Director of the INTICO Research Centre, he has led over 65 international research projects, chaired flagship IEEE conferences, and co-founded the IEEE Communications Society Technical Working Group on the Internet of Things. He has supervised 44 PhD students, transferred technology through patents and spin-offs with partners such as Telefónica, Ericsson, and NEC, and earned honors including Spain's National Award in Computer Science and the IBM Faculty Award. His gift for communicating complex ideas to diverse audiences makes him an outstanding Distinguished Lecturer.

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Industry Pioneer Award

Penta Security

Since its founding in 1997, Penta Security has delivered commercially proven technologies in web application security, data encryption, authentication, cloud security, and IoT security. By continually adapting these solutions to evolving threats, the company has helped enterprises and public organizations strengthen their security posture and pursue safer digital transformation, establishing itself as an industry leader worthy of this recognition.

ZenmuTech, Inc. (Japan)

ZENMU-AONT (XCTRT)

ZenmuTech has demonstrated that its core technology, ZENMU-AONT (XCTRT), is widely adopted across a range of industries, reflecting the innovation and industrial impact this award celebrates.

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Young Researcher Award

Hyojin Jo

Yonsei University, South Korea

Dr. Hyojin Jo, Associate Professor at Yonsei University, has made pioneering contributions to anomaly detection, cybersecurity, AI security, and cyber-physical system security. His work on Controller Area Network fuzzing, secure vehicle data logging through trusted execution environments, and real-time identification of attack sources has redefined security benchmarks for connected and autonomous vehicles, with publications in venues such as IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and USENIX Security. As principal investigator on national projects funded by IITP and the NRF and a repeated recipient of Outstanding Teaching Awards, he combines research leadership with a strong commitment to education.

Sohyun Park

Sungshin Women's University, South Korea

Dr. Sohyun Park, Assistant Professor at Sungshin Women's University, is an outstanding early-career researcher in cybersecurity, AI security, communication networks, and data security. Her recent work on vulnerabilities in agent-to-agent communication and Model Context Protocol based AI ecosystems has been accepted to the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 Workshops, while her research on open-source endpoint detection and response, published in IEEE Access, has drawn more than 50 citations. With multiple first-author SCIE publications, granted patents, and national honors including the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award, she shows a clear trajectory toward becoming a leading scholar in cybersecurity and AI security.

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Promising Graduate Student Award

Elena Kim

Soonchunhyang University, South Korea

Elena Kim has shown strong academic commitment and steady intellectual growth throughout her graduate studies, with diligent coursework, a serious research attitude, and active participation in departmental activities. A highly motivated and hard-working doctoral student, she continues to develop her research interests and doctoral-level capabilities, and her passion for learning and readiness to take on new challenges make her a strong candidate for this award.

Hyeongyeob Kim

Kookmin University, South Korea

Hyeongyeob Kim proposes the Quantum Secure Tunnel (QST), a hybrid PQC and QKD construction that targets the QKD last-mile problem faced when unmanned platforms cannot host wired QKD connections. He situates the work against QKD-KEM and related research, and validates it experimentally on a Raspberry Pi 4 using OpenSSL 4.0.0, qSIM PSK, QKMS recovery, and TLS 1.3 tunnel establishment, giving the design concrete experimental support.

Jaeho Hwang

Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Jaeho Hwang, an Integrated M.S./Ph.D. candidate in Immersive Media Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, has built a coherent research program at the intersection of cybersecurity, cyber resilience, and applied AI. As first author he published a survey in Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences (SCIE-indexed) and an award-winning study recognized at the Korea Computer Congress 2024 and extended in the Journal of KIISE. He has co-authored work at venues such as MobiSec, ICOIN, and CSA on topics ranging from generative-AI detection of illegal gambling to LLM-based spam and deepfake analysis, and has contributed to national R&D projects in cyber crisis response and operational-technology security, reflecting the research excellence and promise this award recognizes.

Joon-Seok Kim

Chonnam National University, South Korea

Joon-Seok Kim is a Ph.D. candidate at Chonnam National University who has completed his doctoral coursework and expects to receive his degree in February 2027. His research addresses software supply chain security, a key technology for future e-commerce systems. Over six years at the university's System Security Research Center, he has built a strong record of domestic and international conference awards, journal publications, and patent applications, showing clear potential to become a leading expert in e-commerce security.

Yin-Hsuan Hsu

National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Yin-Hsuan Hsu is a first-year master's student at National Sun Yat-sen University whose research addresses post-quantum identity protection and secure authentication for next-generation 5G/6G and vehicular networks. Working within industry and academia collaborations with MediaTek and Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories, she has analyzed 3GPP SUCI/eSUCI identity protection and lattice-based anonymous credentials, pairing rigorous cryptographic analysis with deployment-aware engineering. Her first-author poster, accepted at EBISION 2026, compares candidate post-quantum SUCI migration paths and connects their trade-offs to concrete e-business applications, marking her as a promising contributor to post-quantum security.