Hans W. A. Hanley汉斯·汉隶

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Education

2024Stanford University

M.S., Computer Science

GPA 4.016. Advisor: Professor Zakir Durumeric. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.

2020University of Oxford

M.Sc., Statistical Science

Distinction (Highest Honors). Advisor: Professor Garrett Morris. Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholar, Worcester College.

2019University of Oxford

M.Sc., Advanced Computer Science

Distinction (Highest Honors). Advisors: Dr. Riccardo Spolaor, Professor Ivan Martinovic. Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholar, Worcester College.

2018Princeton University

B.S.E., Electrical Engineering

Highest Honors. GPA 3.982. Advisor: Professor Prateek Mittal. Concentration: Information Security and Privacy. Minors: Applications of Computing; Robotics and Intelligent Systems. Phi Beta Kappa; Tau Beta Pi; Sigma Xi.

Experience

Apr 2026 —New York, NY

Member of Technical Staff — Microsoft AI

Large-scale language-model systems for AI safety and truthfulness: multilingual representation learning, semantic modeling, and evaluation of model-generated content. LLM-based evaluators and measurement pipelines for factuality, reasoning quality, and integrity risk.

2025–26New York, NY

Research Scientist, Central Applied Sciences — Meta

Multilingual and multimodal LLM pipelines modeling content semantics, creator verticals, and user interaction behavior across Instagram for downstream recommender systems, plus LLM-based evaluation metrics for content quality and integrity.

2024Mountain View, CA

Health AI Student Researcher — Google Research

LLM-based agents for structured querying and high-fidelity reasoning over large clinical datasets, with verification layers and evaluation frameworks for accuracy, safety, and adversarial robustness.

2021Washington, DC

Research Intern — Atlantic Council, Digital Forensic Research Lab

Investigated global misinformation and influence operations; authored seven reports on cross-platform inauthentic behavior and propaganda narratives. Published pieces →

2018Seattle, WA

Data Engine Software Intern — Microsoft

Built a C# framework for the Business Applications Group mobile offline synchronisation tool, scaling it to twice the users while cutting sync time by 75%, and added concurrent row versioning across servers. Validated with seven load and stress tests on a 30-server group.

2017Sunnyvale, CA

Gmail Security Software Intern — Google

Designed and shipped a security feature for Gmail Android that analyses outgoing email addresses to reduce user vulnerability, and implemented client-side logic cutting request latency and bandwidth when processing recipients against the backend.

2016New York, NY

Google Docs and Drive Security Software Intern — Google

Implemented an action executor in Java for the Google Sheets API v4 within randomised end-to-end security software, extending authorisation test coverage to critical new launch flows. Contributed 52 changes, including 37 unit and 55 integration tests.

2015Lubbock, TX

NSF REU, Declarative Programming — Texas Tech University

Contributed to the Texas Tech Answer Set Prolog codebase, exploring applications to AI and cybersecurity, and designed a Generate-and-Test program identifying de-anonymisation inference leakages in a k-anonymity model. Advised by Dr Rattikorn Hewett.

2014Celebration, FL

Software Engineering Intern — Top Gun Laparoscopic Internship

Wrote the engineering dossier for the Top Gun training instrument and presented it to the Chief Medical Officer of Lexion Medical. Built three Java programs driving a Wiimote interface to teach laparoscopic surgeons ultrasound technique.

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Skills

Service & leadership

Program committees

Reviewing

Mentoring and leadership