Hans William Alexander Hanley
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Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2025 (expected)
- MS in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2024
- MSc in Statistical Science, University of Oxford, 2020, Distinction (Highest Honors)
- MSc in Advanced Computer Science, University of Oxford, 2019, Distinction (Highest Honors)
- BSE in Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2018, Highest Honors
Work experience
Summer 2021: Digital Forensic Research Lab Intern
Atlantic Council
Washington DCSummer 2018: Data Engine Software Intern
Microsoft
Seattle, WASummer 2017: Gmail Security Software Intern
Google
Sunnyvale, CASummer 2016: Google Docs and Drive Security Software Intern
Google
New York, NYSummer 2015: NSF REU Declarative Programming
Texas Tech
Lubbock, TX
Skills
- Mandarin Chinese (HSK 4)
- Proficient Programming Languages: Java, Python, C, Go, R, Git, TensorFlow, PyTorch
- Experienced Programming Languages: MATLAB, C#, Answer Set Prolog (ASP)
Publications
Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale
Hans W. A. Hanley, Deepak Kumar, and Zakir Durumeric. "Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale." 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024.
Machine-Made Media: Monitoring the Mobilization of Machine-Generated Articles on Misinformation and Mainstream News Websites
Hans W. A. Hanley and Zakir Durumeric. "Machine-Made Media: Monitoring the Mobilization of Machine-Generated Articles on Misinformation and Mainstream News Websites." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Vol. 18. 2024.
Partial Mobilization: Tracking Multilingual Information Flows Amongst Russian Media Outlets and Telegram
Hans W. A. Hanley and Zakir Durumeric. "Partial Mobilization: Tracking Multilingual Information Flows Amongst Russian Media Outlets and Telegram." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Vol. 18. 2024.
TATA: Stance Detection via Topic-Agnostic and Topic-Aware Embeddings
Hans W. A. Hanley and Zakir Durumeric. "TATA: Stance Detection via Topic-Agnostic and Topic-Aware Embeddings." The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
A Golden Age: Conspiracy Theories’ Relationship with Misinformation Outlets, News Media, and the Wider Internet
Hanley, Hans W. A., Deepak Kumar, and Zakir Durumeric. "A Golden Age: Conspiracy Theories’ Relationship with Misinformation Outlets, News Media, and the Wider Internet." The 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing 2023.
Sub-Standards and Mal-Practices: Misinformation’s Role in Insular, Polarized, and Toxic Interactions
“A Special Operation”: A Quantitative Approach to Dissecting and Comparing Different Media Ecoystems’ Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Hanley, Hans W. A., Deepak Kumar, and Zakir Durumeric. ""A Special Operation": A Quantitative Approach to Dissecting and Comparing Different Media Ecoystems’ Coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Vol. 17. 2023.
Happenstance: Utilizing Semantic Search to Track Russian State Media Narrative about the Russo-Ukrainian War on Reddit
Hanley, Hans W. A., Deepak Kumar, and Zakir Durumeric. "Happenstance: Utilizing Semantic Search to Track Russian State Media Narrative about the Russo-Ukrainian War on Reddit." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Vol. 17. 2023.
No Calm in the Storm: Investigating QAnon Website Relationships
Hanley, Hans W. A., Deepak Kumar, and Zakir Durumeric. "No Calm in The Storm: Investigating QAnon Website Relationships." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Vol. 16. 2022.
DPSelect: A Differential Privacy Based Guard Relay Selection Algorithm for Tor
Hans Hanley, Yixin Sun, Sameer Wagh, and Prateek Mittal. "DPSelect: A differential privacy based guard relay selection algorithm for Tor." Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2019, no. 2 (2019)
Dissertations
GENerateZ: Automatic De Novo Design of Anticancer Drugs using Transcriptomic Data, Genetic Algorithms, and Variational Autoencoders
University of Oxford, Master of Science in Statistcal Science, 2020
PROMISE: Provably RObust Malware detectIon uSing diffErential privacy
University of Oxford, Master of Science in Computer Science, 2019
DPSelect: A Differential Privacy Based Guard Relay Selection Algorithm for Tor
Princeton University, BSE Electrical Engineering, 2018
Talks
Narratives of Foreign Media Ecosystems in Chinese Social Media Discussions of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Talk at TADA: New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data 2023, Boston, MA
Happenstance: Utilizing Semantic Search to Track Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War On Reddit
Talk at Mechanisms of Domination?: State Sponsored Information and Media Ecosystems at 119th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA
Influence of foreign and domestic media ecosystems on Chinese social media
Talk at Politics and Computational Social Science Conference (PaCSS) 2023, Los Angeles, CA
Narratives of Foreign Media Ecosystems in Chinese Social Media Discussions of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Talk at The 40th annual meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, Stanford, CA
Online Information Flows and Ecosystems: Understanding the Role of Misinformation and AI-Generated Media
Talk at University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK
Online Information Flows and Ecosystems: Understanding the Role of Misinformation and AI-Generated Media
Talk at University College London Information Security Seminar, London, UK
Tracking the Influence of Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War
Talk at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Tracking the Influence of Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War
Talk at University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Happenstance: Utilizing Semantic Search to Track Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War On Reddit
Talk at Stanford Security Lunch, Stanford, CA
Methods in the Madness: From QAnon to COVID-19, Conspiracy Theories’ Relationship with Misinformation Outlets, the News Media, and the Wider Internet
Talk at Stanford Security Workshop, Stanford, CA
No Calm in the Storm
Talk at Stanford Security Lunch, Stanford, CA
GENerateZ: Automatic De Novo Design of Anticancer Drugs using Transcriptomic Data, Genetic Algorithms, and Variational Autoencoders
Talk at 2020 3rd RSC-BMCS / RSC-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry, London, UK
An Exploration of Contextualized Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis
Talk at 2019 Oxford Computer Science Conference, Oxford, England
DPSelect: A Differential Privacy Based Guard Relay Selection Algorithm for Tor
Talk at 2019 Oxford Computer Science Conference, Oxford, England
Selected Honors
- Meta PhD Research Fellow in Computational Social Science
- Stanford University Computer Science EDGE Fellow
- University of Oxford Worcester College Prize for Academic Excellence 2019 & 2020
- Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship at Worcester College, Oxford University
- Princeton University Jame Hayes-Edgar Palmer Prize in Engineering
- Princeton University Electrical Engineering Charles Ira Young Memorial Tablet & Medal
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Winner
- National Merit Scholar for Academic Excellence
Service and leadership
- 27th ACM CSCW Reviewer (2024)
- 26th ACM CSCW Reviewer (2023)
- 17th AAAI ICWSM Program Committee (2022)
- 17th AAAI ICWSM Reviewer (2023)
- 25th ACM CSCW Reviewer (2022)
- Stanford’s Journal of Science, Tech, and Society Peer Reviewer (2022)
- Stanford CS Grad Mentor (2021-22)
- Daniel M. Sachs Global Scholarship Interviewer (2021)
- Stanford Undergraduate Research Association (SURA) Mentor (2020)
- Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning Engineering Learning Consultant (2020-2022)
- National Society of Black Engineers, Princeton University Chapter, President