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A research team led by Professor Sangdon Park (Computer Science and Graduate School of AI, POSTECH), along with graduate students Minjae Gwon (M.S. in Computer Science, ’24) and Minjae Lee (MS-Ph.D. Integrated Program in Graduate School of AI, ’24), achieved first place as part of Team Atlanta at the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) finals held on August 8th (local time) in Las Vegas during DEF CON 33, the world's largest hacking conference.

The AIxCC is a two-year global competition co-hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). The challenge tests participants' ability to automatically detect and patch software vulnerabilities using AI-based Cyber Reasoning Systems (CRS). The winning team receives a prize of $4 million USD (approximately 5.5 billion KRW). Seven teams advanced to the finals after competing against 42 teams worldwide in the 2024 semifinals. Team Atlanta secured victory with an overwhelming score of 392.76 points, creating a margin of over 170 points ahead of the second-place team.

Team Atlanta consists of approximately 40 researchers from prestigious institutions including POSTECH, Samsung Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, and KAIST. Professor Park and POSTECH students played crucial roles as AI experts in developing the first practical agentic AI capable of vulnerability detection and patching.

Professor Sangdon Park commented, "I'm thrilled to have participated with such a fantastic team in developing the first practical agentic AI for vulnerability detection and patching. I would like to express my gratitude to Professor Taesoo Kim (Georgia Tech, Samsung Electronics) for creating and leading this team. I will continue to dedicate myself to research on trustworthy security patching and code generation problem.“

Graduate School of AI has supported GPUs for Team Atlanta during AIxCC.