Hoang Dai Nguyen

Research Assistant
Louisiana State Univeristy
hngu281 [at] lsu.edu
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I'm a CS PhD student at Louisiana State Univeristy where I work with Prof. Phani Vadrevu. My research focuses on practical, hands-on security, with an emphasis on web security and privacy. I have worked extensively on a range of topics, including social engineering attacks, browser fingerprinting, bot attacks, and bot detection techniques. I build and deploy scalable systems to measure and analyze real-world threats, uncover vulnerabilities, and design effective defense strategies.

News

Jan 2025 Paper on Attacks Against Canvas Fingerprinting Defenses accepted at WWW 2025.
May 2024 Awarded IEEE S&P 2024 Travel Grant.
Mar 2024 Paper on in-the-wild Captcha Attacks accepted at IEEE S&P 2024.
Dec 2023 Paper on Cryptocurrency Scams was accepted at IEEE S&P 2024.
Oct 2023 Awarded ACM IMC 2023 Travel Grant.
Sep 2022 Paper on Web Audio Fingerprinting was accepted to ACM IMC 2022.
Jan 2021 Awarded Tolmas Scholars 2021 at The University of New Orleans.

Publications

    2025

  1. Link Not Available Yet Breaking the Shield: Analyzing and Attacking Canvas Fingerprinting Defenses in the Wild
    Hoang Dai Nguyen, Phani Vadrevu
    Proceedings of the ACM World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
    Sydney, Australia, 2025
    To Appear Soon

    2. 2024

  2. C-FRAME: Characterizing and Measuring in-the-wild CAPTCHA Attacks
    Hoang Dai Nguyen, Karthika Subramani, Bhupendra Acharya, Roberto Perdisci, Phani Vadrevu
    Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)
    San Francisco, USA, 2024
  3. Conning the Crypto Conman: End-to-End Analysis of Cryptocurrency-based Technical Support Scams
    Bhupendra Acharya, Muhammad Saad, Antonio Emanuele Cinà, Lea Schönherr, Hoang Dai Nguyen, Adam Oest, Phani Vadrevu, Thorsten Holz
    Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)
    San Francisco, USA, 2024

    4. 2022

  4. Your Speaker or My Snooper? Measuring the Effectiveness of Web Audio Browser Fingerprints
    Shekhar Chalise, Hoang Dai Nguyen, Phani Vadrevu
    Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
    Nice, France, 2022

Posters

    2021

  1. Prediction of Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions using Machine Learning Methods
    Hoang Dai Nguyen, Md Wasi Ul Kabir, Md Tamjidul Hoque
    InnovateUNO 2021
    New Orleans, USA, 2021
  2. Machine Learning-based Effective Prediction of Protein Disordered Regions
    Md Wasi Ul Kabir, Hoang Dai Nguyen, Md Tamjidul Hoque
    8th Annual Louisiana Biomedical Research Network Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
    Louisiana, USA, 2021

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