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Ph.D. in Computer Science, College of William and Mary, (2018)

Expertise

Research Interests

Empirical & Data-Driven Security: Internet Security, Internet Infrastructure and Measurement, Internet Censorship, Usable & Behavioral Security, Cybercrime

Articles

Bian, R., Hao, S., Wang, H., Dhamdere, A., Dainotti, A. and Cotton, C. (2019). Towards Passive Analysis of Anycast in Global Routing: Unintended Impact of Remote Peering. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR) 49 (3).

Hao, S. and Wang, H. (2017). Exploring Domain Name Based Features on the Effectiveness of DNS Caching. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR) 47 (1).

Conference Proceeding

Cheng, S., Meng, S., Xu, H., Zhang, H., Hao, S., Yue, C., Ma, W., Han, M., Zhang, F. and Li, Z. (2025). Effective PII Extraction from LLMs through Augmented Few-Shot Learning The 34th USENIX Security Symposium.

Xu, H., Sun, Y., Qasim, K. Ullah., Hao, S., Ma, W., Li, Z., Zhang, F., Han, M. and Li, Z. (2025). Understanding the Business of Online Affiliate Marketing: An Empirical Study 2025 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM).

Lu, Y., Lin, H., He, Z., Xu, H., Li, Z., Hao, S., Wang, L., Wang, H. and Ren, K. (2025). TacDroid: Detection of Illicit Apps Through Hybrid Analysis of UI-Based Transition Graphs 2025 IEEE/ACM 47th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE).

Bian, R., Jin, L., Hao, S., Wang, H. and Cotton, C. (2024). Silent Observers Make a Difference: A Large-scale Analysis of Transparent Proxies on the Internet IEEE Conference on Computer Communications 2024 (IEEE INFOCOM).

Liu, G., Jin, L., Hao, S., Zhang, Y., Liu, D., Stavrou, A. and Wang, H. (2023). Dial "N" for NXDomain: The Scale, Origin, and Security Implications of DNS Queries to Non-Existent Domains Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference (IMC).

Zhou, M., Zhang, X., Hao, S., Yang, X., Zheng, J., Chen, G. and Dou, W. (2023). Regional IP Anycast: Deployments, Performance, and Potentials ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference.

Liu, G., Liu, D., Hao, S., Gao, X., Sun, K. and Wang, H. (2022). Ready Raider One: Exploring the Misuse of Cloud Gaming Services Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).

Houser, R., Hao, S., Cotton, C. and Wang, H. (2022). A Comprehensive, Longitudinal Study of Government DNS Deployment at Global Scale 2022 52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN).

Yang, H., Du, K., Zhang, Y., Hao, S., Wang, H., Zhang, J. and Duan, H. (2021). Mingling of Clear and Muddy Water: Understanding and Detecting Semantic Confusion in Blackhat SEO 2021 The 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS).

Jin, L., Hao, S., Wang, H. and Cotton, C. (2021). Understanding the Practices of Global Censorship through Accurate, End-to-End Measurements ACM SIGMETRICS 2022.

Jin, L., Hao, S., Huang, Y., Wang, H. and Cotton, C. (2021). DNSonChain: Delegating Privacy-Preserved DNS Resolution to Blockchain 2021 IEEE 29th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP).

Jin, L., Hao, S., Wang, H. and Cotton, C. (2021). Understanding the Impact of Encrypted DNS on Internet Censorship Proceedings of the 2021 The Web Conference (WWW).

Jin, L., Hao, S., Wang, H. and Cotton, C. (2019). Unveil the Hidden Presence: Characterizing the Backend Interface of Content Delivery Networks 2019 IEEE 27th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP).

Hao, S., Zhang, Y., Wang, H. and Stavrou, A. (2018). End-Users Get Maneuvered: Empirical Analysis of Redirection Hijacking in Content Delivery Networks The 27th USENIX Security Symposium.

Jin, L., Hao, S., Wang, H. and Cotton, C. (2018). Your Remnant Tells Secret: Residual Resolution in DDoS Protection Services 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) IEEE.

Xu, H., Hao, S., Sari, A. and Wang, H. (2018). Privacy Risk Assessment on Email Tracking IEEE Conference on Computer Communications 2018 (IEEE INFOCOM).

Liu, D., Hao, S. and Wang, H. (2016). All Your DNS Records Point to Us: Understanding the Security Threats of Dangling DNS Records Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS).

Hao, S., Wang, H., Stavrou, A. and Smirni, E. (2015). On the DNS Deployment of Modern Web Services 2015 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP).