Publications

@article{ahmad2026more,
  title     = {{More Space, Less Privacy? Measuring the Effectiveness of IP-based Website Fingerprinting in IPv6}},
  author    = {Sumeer Ahmad and Michalis Polychronakis and Theophilus A. Benson and Nguyen Phong Hoang},
  journal   = {The 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.56553/popets-2026-0109},
}

@inproceedings{prasad2026regtrack,
  author    = {Prasad, Tanya and Vora, Rut and Lim, Soo Yee and Hoang, Nguyen Phong and Pasquier, Thomas},
  title     = {{RegTrack}: Uncovering Global Disparities in Third-party Advertising and Tracking},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th NDSS Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web},
  series    = {MADWeb '26},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.14722/madweb.2026.23010},
}

@article{offerwestort2026canvassing,
  author    = {Offer-Westort, Molly and Liu, Jiehan and Feamster, Nick and Garg, Kartik and Hoang, Nguyen Phong and Hosamane, Sudhamshu},
  title     = {Deep Canvassing with Automated Conversational Agents: Personalized Messaging to Change Attitudes},
  journal   = {Research \& Politics},
  year      = {2026},
  volume    = {13},
  number    = {1},
  pages     = {1--7},
  doi       = {10.1177/20531680251414926},
}

@inproceedings{tai2025:irblock,
  author     = {Tai, Jonas and Sengottuvelavan, Karthik Nishanth and Whiting, Peter and Hoang, Nguyen Phong},
  title      = {{IRBlock}: A Large-Scale Measurement Study of the Great Firewall of Iran},
  booktitle  = {Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium},
  series     = {{USENIX Security '25}},
  year       = {2025},
}

@inproceedings{nourin2025mint,
  title     = {{Is Nobody There? Good! Globally Measuring Connection Tampering without Responsive Endhosts}},
  author    = {Sadia Nourin and Erik Rye and Kevin Bock and Nguyen Phong Hoang and Dave Levin},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy},
  series       = {S\&P '25},
  year      = {2025},
}

@inproceedings{Hoang2024:GFWeb,
author     = {Nguyen Phong Hoang and Jakub Dalek and Masashi Crete-Nishihata and Nicolas Christin and Vinod Yegneswaran and Michalis Polychronakis and Nick Feamster},
title      = {{GFWeb: Measuring the Great Firewall's Web Censorship at Scale}},
booktitle  = {{Proceedings of the 33th USENIX Security Symposium}},
series     = {{USENIX Security '24}},
year       = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{Calle2024:DNSML,
 author     = {Paola Calle and Larissa Savitsky and Arjun Nitin Bhagoji and Nguyen Phong Hoang and Shinyoung Cho},
 title      = {{Toward Automated DNS Tampering Detection Using Machine Learning}},
 booktitle  = {Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet},
 series     = {{FOCI '24}},
 year       = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{Tang2024:Probelist,
 author     = {Jenny Tang and Leo Alvarez and Arjun Brar and Nguyen Phong Hoang and Nicolas Christin},
 title      = {{Automatic Generation of Web Censorship Probe Lists}},
 booktitle  = {Proceedings of the 24st Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium},
 series     = {{PoPETs '24}},
 year       = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{Amich2023:DeResitor,
author     = {Abderrahmen Amich and Birhanu Eshete and Vinod Yegneswaran and Nguyen Phong Hoang},
title      = {{DeResistor: Toward Detection-Resistant Probing for Evasion of Internet Censorship}},
booktitle  = {{Proceedings of the 32th USENIX Security Symposium}},
series     = {{USENIX Security '23}},
year       = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{Brown2023:KDD,
author     = {Jacob Brown and Xi Jiang and Van Tran and Arjun Nitin Bhagoji and Nguyen Phong Hoang and Nick Feamster and Prateek Mittal and Vinod Yegneswaran},
title      = {{Augmenting Rule-based DNS Censorship Detection at Scale with Machine Learning}},
booktitle  = {{Conference On Knowledge Discovery And Data Mining}},
isbn       = {9781450394161},
pages      = {(To appear)},
location   = {Long Beach, California},
month      = {Aug},
series     = {{KDD '23}},
year       = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{Nourin2023:MWEP,
author     = {Sadia Nourin and Kevin Bock and Nguyen Phong Hoang and Dave Levin},
title      = {{Detecting Network Interference Without Endpoint Participation}},
booktitle  = {{Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet}},
location   = {Lausanne, Switzerland},
month      = {July},
series     = {{FOCI '23}},
year       = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{Nourin2023:TMC,
author     = {Sadia Nourin and Van Tran and Xi Jiang and Kevin Bock and Nick Feamster and Nguyen Phong Hoang and Dave Levin},
title      = {{Measuring and Evading Turkmenistan's Internet Censorship}},
booktitle  = {{The International World Wide Web Conference}},
isbn       = {9781450394161},
pages      = {1969–1979},
doi        = {10.1145/3543507.3583189},
location   = {Austin, Texas},
month      = {May},
series     = {{WWW '23}},
year       = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{Hoang2022:DNEye,
 author     = {Nguyen Phong Hoang and Michalis Polychronakis and Phillipa Gill},
 title      = {{Measuring the Accessibility of Domain Name Encryption and its Impact on Internet Filtering}},
 booktitle  = {{Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement}},
 series     = {{PAM '22}},
 year       = {2022},
}

@inproceedings{Hoang2021:GFWatch,
 author     = {Nguyen Phong Hoang and Arian Akhavan Niaki and Jakub Dalek and Jeffrey Knockel and Pellaeon Lin and Bill Marczak and Masashi Crete-Nishihata and Phillipa Gill and Michalis Polychronakis},
 title      = {{How Great is the Great Firewall? Measuring China's DNS Censorship}},
 booktitle  = {{Proceedings of the 30th USENIX Security Symposium}},
 series     = {{USENIX Security '21}},
 year       = {2021},
}

@inproceedings{Hoang2021:IP-WF,
 author     = {Nguyen Phong Hoang and Arian Akhavan Niaki and Phillipa Gill and Michalis Polychronakis},
 title      = {{Domain Name Encryption Is Not Enough: Privacy Leakage via IP-based Website Fingerprinting}},
 booktitle  = {Proceedings of the 21st Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium},
 series     = {{PoPETs '21}},
 year       = {2021},
}

@incollection{Anonymous2020:TripletCensors,
author = {Anonymous and Arian Akhavan Niaki and Nguyen Phong Hoang and Phillipa Gill and Amir Houmansadr},
title = {Triplet Censors: Demystifying Great Firewall{\textquoteright}s {DNS} Censorship Behavior},
booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet}},
series    = {FOCI '20},
year      = {2020},
}

@inproceedings{Hoang2020:ASIACCS,
 author     = {Nguyen Phong Hoang and Arian Akhavan Niaki and Nikita Borisov and Phillipa Gill and Michalis Polychronakis},
 title      = {{Assessing the Privacy Benefits of Domain Name Encryption}},
 booktitle  = {Proceedings of the 15th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
 series     = {AsiaCCS '20},
 year       = {2020},
}

@inproceedings{ICLab:SP20,
  title        = {{ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform}},
  author       = {Arian Akhavan Niaki and Shinyoung Cho and Zachary Weinberg and Nguyen Phong Hoang and Abbas Razaghpanah and Nicolas Christin and Phillipa Gill},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy},
  series       = {S\&P '20},
  year         = {2020},
}

@article{Hoang2020:WebCo-location,
author = {Nguyen Phong Hoang and Arian Akhavan Niaki and Michalis Polychronakis and Phillipa Gill},
title  = {{The Web is Still Small After More Than a Decade}},
year   = {2020},
journal= {ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review},
series = {SIGCOMM CCR '20},
}

@inproceedings{Hoang2020:MADWeb,
 author = {Nguyen Phong Hoang and Ivan Lin and Seyedhamed Ghavamnia and Michalis Polychronakis},
 title = {{K-resolver: Towards Decentralizing Encrypted DNS Resolution}},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of The NDSS Workshop on Measurements, Attacks, and Defenses for the Web 2020},
 series = {MADWeb '20},
 year = {2020},
}

@incollection{Hoang2019:I2PCensorMeasure,
  author    = {Hoang, Nguyen Phong and Doreen, Sadie and Polychronakis, Michalis},
  title     = {{Measuring I2P Censorship at a Global Scale}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet},
  series    = {FOCI '19},
  year      = {2019},
}

@inproceedings{Hoang2018:i2p-censorship-resistance,
 author     = {Hoang, Nguyen Phong and Kintis, Panagiotis and Antonakakis, Manos and Polychronakis, Michalis},
 title      = {{An Empirical Study of the I2P Anonymity Network and Its Censorship Resistance}},
 booktitle  = {Proceedings of the 18th Internet Measurement Conference},
 series     = {IMC '18},
 year       = {2018},
}

@article{Hoang2016:LocationPrivacy,
  title        = {{Your Neighbors Are My Spies: Location and other Privacy Concerns in GLBT-focused Location-based Dating Applications}},
  author       = {Hoang, Nguyen Phong and Asano, Yasuhito and Yoshikawa, Masatoshi},
  year         = {2016},
  journal      = {Transactions on Advanced Communications Technology (TACT)},
}

@inproceedings{Hoang2016:DatingApps,
  title        = {{Your Neighbors Are My Spies: Location and other Privacy Concerns in Dating Apps}},
  author       = {Hoang, Nguyen Phong and Asano, Yasuhito and Yoshikawa, Masatoshi},
  year         = {2016},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology},
  series       = {ICACT '16},
}

@inproceedings{Hoang2015:Tor,
  title        = {{Anti-RAPTOR: Anti Routing Attack on Privacy for a Securer and Scalable Tor}},
  author       = {Hoang, Nguyen Phong and Asano, Yasuhito and Yoshikawa, Masatoshi},
  year         = {2015},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology},
}

@article{Hoang2014:TorHome,
  title        = {A Tor-Based Anonymous Communication Approach to Secure Smart Home Appliances.},
  author       = {Hoang, Nguyen Phong and Pishva, Davar},
  year         = {2014},
  journal      = {Transactions on Advanced Communications Technology (TACT)},
}

@inproceedings{Hoang2014:Anonymous,
  title        = {{Anonymous Communication and Its Importance in Social Networking}},
  author       = {Hoang, Nguyen Phong and Pishva, Davar},
  year         = {2014},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology},
  series       = {ICACT '14},
}