DSN 2026 in Charlotte — Chaeri's First Conference Talk

From June 19 to July 6, Chaeri Jung, Chaeyoung Lee, and I made a business trip to the United States to attend IEEE/IFIP DSN 2026, held June 22–25 in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the two students presented their paper “DRIFT: Drift-Resilient Invariant-Feature Transformer for DGA Detection”.

We landed in Charlotte on June 19 and spent the weekend getting adjusted to the city before the conference opened. According to the statistics shared at the opening session, this year’s program accepted 65 papers out of 331 submissions.

The highlight came on June 24: Chaeri stood at the podium and delivered her first oral presentation at an international conference, walking the audience through DRIFT — the work she and Chaeyoung built together as equal first authors. As an advisor, watching the two of them carry this paper all the way from the first draft to the DSN stage was a genuinely proud moment.

Chaeri presenting DRIFT on June 24.

Around the talk, we made the most of the program — keynotes, technical sessions (Chaeri particularly enjoyed the sessions on fault injection and federated learning), and the poster hall. Both students attended with the support of DSN’26 Student Travel Grants. After the conference wrapped up on June 25, we took some time to recharge before returning home on July 6.

With Chaeyoung and Chaeri at the Dubois Center, UNC Charlotte Center City (June 25).

Most of the photos were taken by Chaeyoung. For more of the journey, see Chaeri’s post and Chaeyoung’s blog.