Feng Hao
Professor of Security Engineering
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick, UK
"Good research comes from tackling real problems."
"Good research is done with a shovel not with tweezers."
--- Roger Needham
Research team
Who are we
Current members
- Prof Feng Hao (PI)
- Dr Sumanta Sankar (SRF)
- Luke Harrison (PhD student)
- Mohammad Sadegh Nourbakhsh (PhD student)
- Huaohuan Li (PhD student)
- Zulkarnaim Masyhur (PhD student)
- Jack Nolan (PhD student)
- Rongyuan Mu (PhD student)
PhD graduates
- Mahshid Mehr Nezhad (graduated in 2024 from the University of Warwick). Thesis: "On the Security of Contactless Payment Systems" [PDF]
- Shen Wang (graduated in 2023 from the University of Warwick). Thesis: "New authentication applications in the protection of caller ID and banknote" [PDF]
- Ehsan Toreini (graduated in 2018 from Newcastle University). Thesis: "New Advances in Tamper Evident Technologies" [PDF]
- Patrick McCorry (graduated in 2017 from Newcastle University). Thesis: "Applications of the Blockchain using Cryptography" [PDF]
- Maryam Mehrnezhad (graduated in 2016 from Newcastle University). Thesis: "On the Security of Mobile Sensors" [PDF] [viva presentation]
Former post-docs
- Dr Mahshid Delavar (RF, 2021 - 2024)
- Dr Samiran Bag (SRF, 2016 - 2022)
- Dr Indranil Ghosh Ray (RF, 2019 - 2022)
- Mark Jackson (software developer, 2018)
- Ehsan Toreini (RA, 2018)
- Muhammad Ajmal Azad (RA, 2016 - 2019 )
- Dr Dylan Clarke (RA, 2011 - 2017)
- Dr Siamak Shahandashti (RA/SRA, 2013 - 2017)
- Dr Taha Ali (RA, 2014 - 2016)
- Dr Peter Hyun-Jeen Lee (RA, 2013 - 2015)
Visitors in the past
- Prof Bimal Kumar Roy from Indian Statistical Institute (Nov, 2018, Nov, 2019)
- Somnath Panja from Indian Statistical Institute (May 2019 - July 2019)
- Charles Varlei Neu from PUCRS, Brazil (Jul 2018 - Oct 2018)
- Dr Hang Luo from Peking University, China (Jul-Sep 2017, Dec 2017-Feb, 2017)
- Dr Chengqing Li from Hunan University, China (Dec 2016-Jun 2017)
- Prof Xun Yi from RMIT, Australia (Feb 2014)
- Carlos Vegas from Spain (Sep-Oct 2013)
Genealogy
- Branch 1: Feng Hao, Ross Anderson, Roger Needham, David Wheeler, Maurice Wilkes, Jack Ratcliffe, Edward Appleton, Ernest Rutherford, JJ Thomson, Lord Rayleigh, Edward Routh, William Hopkins, Adam Sedgwick, Thomas Jones, Thomas Postlethwaite, Stephen Whisson, Walter Taylor, Roger Smith, Roger Cotes, Isaac Newton, Isaac Barrow, Vincenzo Viviani, Galileo Galilei
- Branch 2: Feng Hao, John Daugman, Robert Duncan Luce, Irvin Sol Cohen, Oscar Ascher Zariski, Guido Castelnuovo, Giuseppe Veronese, Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona, Francesco Brioschi, Antonio Bordoni, Vincenzo Brunacci, Pietro Paoli, Sebastiano Canovai
Acknowledgement
Our research is kindly supported by several funding sponsors.
