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 2024: Google Research Student Researcher
Google Research
Mountain View
Summer 2021: Digital Forensic Research Lab Intern
Atlantic Council
Washington DC
Summer 2018: Data Engine Software Intern
Microsoft
Seattle, WA
Summer 2017: Gmail Security Software Intern
Google
Sunnyvale, CA
Summer 2016: Google Docs and Drive Security Software Intern
Google
New York, NY
Summer 2015: NSF REU Declarative Programming
Texas Tech
Lubbock, TX
Skills
- Mandarin Chinese (HSK 5)
- Proficient Programming Languages: Java, Python, C, Go, R, Git, TensorFlow, PyTorch
- Experienced Programming Languages: MATLAB, C#, Answer Set Prolog (ASP)
Publications
Hans W. A. Hanley, Emily Ito Okabe, and Zakir Durumeric. "Tracking the Takes and Trajectories of English-Language News Narratives across Trustworthy and Worrisome Websites." 34th USENIX Security Symposium 2025.
Hanley, Hans W. A., Yingdan Lu, and Jennifer Pan. 'Across the Firewall: Foreign Media's Role in Shaping Chinese Social Media Narratives on the Russo-Ukrainian War.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, National Acad Sciences, 2024.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
University of Oxford, Master of Science in Statistcal Science, 2020
University of Oxford, Master of Science in Computer Science, 2019
Princeton University, BSE Electrical Engineering, 2018
Talks
November 09, 2023
Talk at TADA: New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data 2023, Boston, MA
September 01, 2023
Talk at Mechanisms of Domination?: State Sponsored Information and Media Ecosystems at 119th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA
August 30, 2023
Talk at Politics and Computational Social Science Conference (PaCSS) 2023, Los Angeles, CA
July 09, 2023
Talk at The 40th annual meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, Stanford, CA
June 13, 2023
Talk at University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK
June 12, 2023
Talk at University College London Information Security Seminar, London, UK
September 06, 2022
Talk at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
August 16, 2022
Talk at University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
May 11, 2022
Talk at Stanford Security Lunch, Stanford, CA
April 06, 2022
Talk at Stanford Security Workshop, Stanford, CA
September 08, 2021
Talk at Stanford Security Lunch, Stanford, CA
September 01, 2020
Talk at 2020 3rd RSC-BMCS / RSC-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry, London, UK
April 01, 2019
Talk at 2019 Oxford Computer Science Conference, Oxford, England
April 01, 2019
Talk at 2019 Oxford Computer Science Conference, Oxford, England
Selected Honors
Service and leadership
- AAAI Program Committee (2025)
- ICWSM Program Committee (2025)
- ACL Reviewer (2025)
- 28th ACM CSCW Reviewer (2025)
- 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