I’m a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University supervised by Professor Zakir Durumeric and researching in the Empirical Security Research Group. I am supported by the Meta PhD Research Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Stanford University EDGE Fellowship. I am broadly interested in disinformation, computer security, networks, and natural language processing. I completed two Masters’ degrees in Computer Science and in Statistics with the Daniel M. Sachs Scholarship at the University of Oxford. I completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University.

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Outside of research, I do disinformation reporting with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. For fun, I enjoy performing stand-up comedy, listening to UK rhythm and blues music, marathon running, and learning Mandarin Chinese (HSK4).

I also have a blog The Margin of Error where I talk about my research, computational looks at different economic and political issues, and a ton of other topics! You can subscribe here.

If you are an undergrad or master’s student at Stanford and are interested in doing research in the misinformation space, please email me at hhanley at stanford dot edu.

Updates

• Tall and True Tales accepted for Oral Talk at IC²S²!
• Narratives of Foreign Media Ecosystems in Chinese Social Media accepted for Oral Talk at IC²S²!
• Accepted a position working with Marcin Sieniek as a Student Researcher at Google for Summer 2024!
• Will be a panelist for the The Future of Computational Message Science: Theoretical Advances, Computational Frontiers, and Grand Societal Challenges ICA Pre-Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane!
• Narratives of Foreign Media Ecosystems in Chinese Social Media Discussions of the Russo-Ukrainian War accepted for In-Person Presentation at 74th ICA Conference!
• Machine-Made Media: Monitoring the Mobilization of Machine-Generated Articles on Misinformation and Mainstream News Websites accepted to ICWSM 2024!
• Specious Sites: Tracking the Spread and Sway of Spurious News Stories at Scale accepted to 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy!
• Preprint of Twits, Toxic Tweets, and Tribal Tendencies: Trends in Politically Polarized Posts on Twitter
• Partial Mobilization: Tracking Multilingual Information Flows Amongst Russian Media Outlets and Telegram was accepted to ICWSM 2024!
• Awarded Meta PhD Research Fellowship in Computational Social Science
• Preprint of Sub-Standards and Mal-Practices: Misinformation’s Role in Insular, Polarized, and Toxic Interactions