Hoang Nguyen
Hoang Dai Nguyen
  • hngu281@lsu.edu

About Me

I’m a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the Louisiana State University (LSU), advised by Dr. Phani Vadrevu. My research interests lie broadly in applied security, with a particular emphasis on web security and privacy. Currently, my work centers on building and deploying scalable systems to measure and analyze various online threats including browser fingerprinting, social engineering attacks, bot-driven fraud, and other online abuses, and on designing effective defenses to protect users and services.

News

July 2025 Awarded USENIX Security Travel Grant.
June 2025 Awarded the Summer Opportunities Fellowship at LSU (supported by Shell Oil Company).
May 2025 “Personal Impersonation Attacks” paper accepted to USENIX Security 2025.
Jan 2025 “Attacks Against Canvas Fingerprinting Defenses” paper accepted at WWW 2025.
May 2024 Awarded IEEE S&P 2024 Travel Grant.
Mar 2024 “In-the-Wild CAPTCHA Attacks” paper accepted at IEEE S&P 2024.
Dec 2023 “Cryptocurrency Scams” paper accepted at IEEE S&P 2024.
Oct 2023 Awarded ACM IMC 2023 Travel Grant.
Sep 2022 “Web Audio Fingerprinting” paper accepted at ACM IMC 2022.
Jan 2021 Awarded the Tolmas Scholars 2021 Fellowship at the University of New Orleans.

Publications

    2025

  1. “Please don't send that bot anything”: A Mixed-methods Study of Personal Impersonation Attacks Targeting Digital Payments on Social Media

    Hoang Dai Nguyen, Sumit Dhungana, Madhulika Itha, Phani Vadrevu

    34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security) • Seattle, USA, 2025 • Acceptance rate: 18.4% (442/2400)

  2. Breaking the Shield: Analyzing and Attacking Canvas Fingerprinting Defenses in the Wild

    Hoang Dai Nguyen, Phani Vadrevu

    The ACM Web Conference (WWW) • Sydney, Australia, 2025 • Acceptance rate: 19.8% (409/2062)

    3. 2024

  3. C-FRAME: Characterizing and Measuring in-the-wild CAPTCHA Attacks

    Hoang Dai Nguyen, Karthika Subramani, Bhupendra Acharya, Roberto Perdisci, Phani Vadrevu

    45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P) • San Francisco, USA, 2024 • Acceptance rate: 17.8% (258/1449)

  4. 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

    45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P) • San Francisco, USA, 2024 • Acceptance rate: 17.8% (258/1449)

    5. 2022

  5. Your Speaker or My Snooper? Measuring the Effectiveness of Web Audio Browser Fingerprints

    Shekhar Chalise, Hoang Dai Nguyen, Phani Vadrevu

    22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) • Nice, France, 2022 • Acceptance rate: 26.4% (56/212)

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