Feng Hao

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 and Head of the Systems and Security (SAS) research theme in the Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick. He received his PhD in 2007 from the University of Cambridge. He has experience spanning both academia and industry. With colleagues, he has designed several cryptographic protocols, including AV-net, OV-net, J-PAKE, YAK, DRE-i, DRE-ip, SEAL, Owl, VERICONDOR and Camel. Among them, J-PAKE has been adopted by the Thread Group as a de facto standard to perform the IoT commissioning process (used in Google, ARM, Amazon and Apple products) and standardized in ISO/IEC 11770-4. DRE-ip has been used in several elections, including the polling station voting in Gateshead, UK, on 2 May 2019, the Durga Puja online voting in New Town, India, in October 2022, and the UNITA elections in March 2025. His paper "combining crypto with biometrics effectively" (IEEE Trans. Computers) was ranked 1st in Google Scholar's classic papers in the category of "cryptography & computer security". He received a €1.5m ERC starting grant and an ERC proof-of-concept grant on "self-enforcing e-voting" (SEEV) and co-edited a book "Real-World Electronic Voting: Design, Analysis and Deployment" (CRC Press, 2017).