Index
From owned net-zero data-center infrastructure to a large-scale research organization.
The ARO Lab, led by PhD Heesang Kim, uses a large-scale research organization to support organization-wide work from research through development.
AROL.MESH
Research organization
Source cards, review paths, drafts, and project queues stay coordinated.
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work records
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public profiles
Work — /work
/work/farmbit-product-venture
scene — FARM.GRID
FarmBit energy-compute grid
FarmBit turns AI/HPC heat, greenhouse energy, and distributed compute into one venture system.
FarmBit reframes an AI-infrastructure problem into a product: reuse compute waste heat for greenhouse energy while offering distributed AI/HPC capacity and farm operations software.
/work/ajou-medical-ai-data
scene — MED.PIPE
Clinical data system
Medical data moves from intake to patient-safety review.
Clinical data work spans intake, de-identification, patient-safety structure, evaluation, and manuscript or conference-facing research outputs.
/work/consensus-governance-survey
scene — CONS.TAX
Scalability
PoW scalability, incentives, and assessment stay visible as one system.
This lineage spine connects PoW optimization to assessment methods, DeFi incentives, and patent-backed consensus design.
Live research direction: applying data modeling and validation habits to medical AI and patient-safety workflows.
current · Medical-data researcher · personal research
Current Ajou University Hospital NRF patient-safety research-project participation connected to the medical-data research line.
2026.03 - current · Participating researcher · research projects
FarmBit reads as a concrete climate-infrastructure and distributed-compute product with its own venture record.
2025 - current · Product strategy / venture PM · ventures
Current manuscript bridge from consensus taxonomy into a larger distributed-systems and governance survey.
2026 - current · Research lead / manuscript architect · personal research
Clearest cryptoeconomic thread: gas fees, incentive alignment, equilibrium, throughput, and DeFi security.
2024 - 2025 · First author / researcher · personal research
Defensible distributed-systems core: scalability, security tradeoffs, and consensus-lineage framing.
2021 - 2023 · First author / researcher · personal research
This turns the PoW scalability line into registered intellectual property: optimal consensus derivation for proof-of-work blockchains.
2023 - 2025 · Inventor / consensus researcher · personal research
Turns blockchain experience into evaluation: scoring, weighting, compliance, platform comparison, and roadmap-level judgment.
2023 - 2024 · First author / assessment-method researcher · personal research
A named 2025 defense AI R&D record with its own project-manager trail.
2025 · project manager · research projects
A named multi-year NRF resilience project tying blockchain, digital twins, and M&S together.
2023 - 2025 · project manager · research projects
Scope
01 / 05ajou-medical-ai
아주대병원 의료 데이터
Medical-data modeling, nursing informatics, patient safety, actigraphy, and clinical knowledge representation.
work/ajou-medical-ai-data
02 / 05consensus-taxonomy
PoW 확장성·합의
Evolutionary phylogeny for blockchain consensus algorithms and PoW block-interval improvement.
work/consensus-taxonomy-scalability
03 / 05defi-cryptoeconomics
DeFi·암호경제 모델
Gas-fee minimization, Nash-equilibrium framing, and token-economy protocol evaluation.
work/defi-cryptoeconomic-models
04 / 05applied-rnd
연구 과제
Externally sponsored research-project records organized by project name, period, institution, and role.
work/research-projects
05 / 05product-consulting
제품·교육·컨설팅 실행
FarmBit climate-infrastructure product, startup technology-management work, product planning, app release, KT Aivle tutoring, and KRAFTON Jungle assistant instruction.
work/execution
Sources
DOI- and patent-backed items come first. Project and career history are in Work.
Published IEEE Access research on DeFi gas-fee minimization for Ethereum pools.
Ethereum DeFi 풀의 가스비 최소화에 관한 IEEE Access 연구를 발표했습니다.
Heesang Kim and Dohoon Kim, IEEE Access 12, 173810-173823.
Introduced a blockchain assessment methodology combining CVSS-style scoring and weighting mechanisms.
CVSS식 점수화와 가중 메커니즘을 결합한 블록체인 평가 방법론을 제안했습니다.
Safe wording: assessment methodology, not an official standard.
Published game-theoretic DeFi pool research using Nash-equilibrium framing.
내쉬균형 프레이밍을 활용한 DeFi 풀의 게임이론적 연구를 발표했습니다.
Heesang Kim and Dohoon Kim, Journal of Korean Institute of Information Technology 22(7), 179-184.
Proposed an evolutionary-phylogeny taxonomy for blockchain consensus algorithms.
블록체인 합의 알고리즘을 진화 계통분류 방식으로 정리하는 방법론을 제안했습니다.
Heesang Kim and Dohoon Kim, Sensors 23(5), 2739.
Published peer-reviewed work on PoW block-interval process improvement for blockchain scalability.
PoW 합의의 블록 간격 프로세스 개선을 통한 블록체인 확장성 연구를 발표했습니다.
Heesang Kim and Dohoon Kim, Electronics 10(17), 2135.
Coauthored applied security work on lightweight hash-chain authentication for the VMF military standard.
VMF 군 표준의 경량 해시체인 인증 연구에 공동저자로 참여했습니다.
Applied blockchain/security thread; not presented as a deployed defense system.
sources: doi.org · publisher pages · public profile records
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Career & research
2026
Current Ajou University Hospital medical-data work includes NRF patient-safety decision-support project participation, nursing informatics, MIMIC/CDM-oriented analysis, and an in-progress consensus-as-governance survey manuscript package.
2025.08.22 / 2025.09 - 2026.03
Computer science Ph.D. degree conferred on 2025.08.22 after the doctoral DeFi gas-fee minimization line; Chomchom Co., Ltd. technology-and-management work ran from 2025.09 to 2026.03 alongside applied R&D project-management work.
2024
IEEE Access work on DeFi gas-fee minimization and blockchain assessment methodology, KIIT DeFi equilibrium work, KRAFTON Jungle assistant-instruction record through 2024-02, and confirmed project records spanning digital-twin resilience and space-cybersecurity threat analysis.
2023
Sensors consensus taxonomy paper, blockchain assessment work, railway non-stop customs interoperability research, disability-certificate prototyping, and KIAT-led industrial AI talent training.
2022.02.25
M.S. in Computer Science degree conferred on 2022.02.25, anchored by master's thesis work on decentralization and scalability through burn-and-mint cryptocurrency modeling, alongside railway requirements, C-ITS traffic modeling, DeFi metrics, and applied blockchain-security project threads.
2021
Electronics paper on PoW block-interval improvement, KT Aivle School tutor record from 2021-12 to 2022-01, KIAT-led industrial AI talent training, KVMF, tactical-network, cyber-threat intelligence, and fintech-platform project records.
2020
Applied Sciences work on lightweight hash-chain authentication for the VMF military standard, verified KVMF authentication/data-integrity R&D, fintech/token research projects, and startup PM execution.
2019.03 - 2025.08
Blockchain and cybersecurity researcher role at Distributed Security Lab from 2019.03 to 2025.08, forming the long-running applied-security base beside early startup CTO/PM, service planning, and external development-management work.
Profile
current
Current work spans medical-data modeling, nursing informatics, patient-safety workflows, MIMIC/CDM-oriented analysis, and actigraphy-informed clinical-data workflows.
doctoral
Ph.D. in Computer Science, degree conferred 2025.08.22. Doctoral research centers on equilibria-driven gas-fee minimization in decentralized finance, building from consensus scalability and DeFi cryptoeconomic modeling.
education
M.S. in Computer Science, degree conferred 2022.02.25. Master's research connects cryptocurrency stability, burn-and-mint models, decentralization, scalability, and PoW block-interval improvement.
career
Career record: Chomchom Co., Ltd. technology and management role, 2025.09-2026.03; blockchain and cybersecurity researcher, Distributed Security Lab, 2019.03-2025.08.
execution
Teaching and mentoring record: KT Aivle School tutor, KRAFTON Jungle assistant instructor, and 2024 H1 Kyonggi University SW-centered S/W Sangsang Company mentor.
project record
Externally sponsored research projects are organized in Work by exact project title, period, institution, and role, with related papers or conference outputs connected only when the topic directly matches.
readiness
CITI Program Human Research / Data or Specimens Only Research for MIT Affiliates refresher, supporting medical-data and patient-safety research participation.
credentials
SOLIDWORKS CSWP/CSWA, Cisco Networking Academy, Intel IoT smart-convergence specialist training, and KISA KUCIS information-security club leadership workshop participation.
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Records
Public research profiles, DOI-backed publications, LinkedIn, research-project records, and public work history.