Professor of Security Engineering

Room: CS3.30

Tel: +44 24 765 72614

Email: feng dot hao at warwick dot ac dot uk

https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~fenghao/

Short bio

Feng Hao is a Professor of Security Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick. He received his PhD in 2007 in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge. He worked in the security industry for a few years before joining academia. With colleagues, he designed a few cryptographic protocols: AV-net, OV-net, J-PAKE, YAK, DRE-i, DRE-ip, SEAL, Owl and Camel. Among them, J-PAKE (with Peter Ryan) has been adopted by the Thread Group as a de facto standard to perform the IoT commissioning process (used in Google Nest, ARM mbed, Amazon Firestick and iPhone 16) and standardized in ISO/IEC 11770-4. DRE-ip (with Siamak Shahandashti) was successfully trialled in Gateshead during the UK local elections on 2 May 2019, and in New Town, India in October 2022. His 2006 paper (with Ross Anderson and John Daugman) on "combining crypto with biometrics effectively" (IEEE Trans. Computers) is ranked the top in Google Classic papers in the category of "cryptography & computer security". His work on "self-enforcing e-voting" has led to a €1.5m ERC starting grant and an ERC proof-of-concept grant. With Peter Ryan, he co-edited a book "Real-World Electronic Voting: Design, Analysis and Deployment" (CRC Press, 2017).