Hans William Alexander Hanley

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Education

• PhD in Computer Science, Stanford University, 2025 (expected)
• 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 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 4)
• Proficient Programming Languages: Java, Python, C, Go, R, Git, TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Experienced Programming Languages: MATLAB, C#, Answer Set Prolog (ASP)

Publications

Partial Mobilization: Isolating and Tracking Multilingual Russian Information Flows Across Different Platforms

A Golden Age: Conspiracy Theories’ Relationship with Misinformation Outlets, News Media, and the Wider Internet

Community Guidelines: How Misinformation Reinforces 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 WA, 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 WA, 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 WA, 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

Tracking the Influence of Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War

September 06, 2022

Talk at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Tracking the Influence of Russian State Media Narratives about the Russo-Ukrainian War

August 16, 2022

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

May 11, 2022

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

April 06, 2022

Talk at Stanford Security Workshop, Stanford, CA

No Calm in the Storm

September 08, 2021

Talk at Stanford Security Lunch, Stanford, CA

GENerateZ: Automatic De Novo Design of Anticancer Drugs using Transcriptomic Data, Genetic Algorithms, and Variational Autoencoders

September 01, 2020

Talk at 2020 3rd RSC-BMCS / RSC-CICAG Artificial Intelligence in Chemistry, London, UK

An Exploration of Contextualized Word Vectors for Sentiment Analysis

April 01, 2019

Talk at 2019 Oxford Computer Science Conference, Oxford, England

DPSelect: A Differential Privacy Based Guard Relay Selection Algorithm for Tor

April 01, 2019

Talk at 2019 Oxford Computer Science Conference, Oxford, England

Selected Honors

• 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

• 26th ACM CSCW Reviewer (2023)
• 25th ACM CSCW Reviewer (2022)
• 17th AAAI ICWSM 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