Feng Hao
Professor of Security Engineering
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick, UK

Professional service

Journal editor

• 2013-present: IEEE Security & Privacy (IEEE Magazine)
• 2013-present: Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier Journal)
• 2019-present: The Computer Journal (Oxford press)

Standard editor

• 2014-2017: revision of the ISO/IEC 11770-4:2006 standard on "key management, Part 4: Mechanisms based on weak secrets". Revised standard published in ISO/IEC 11770-4:2017.

Special issue editor

• 2015-2016: Guest editor (with Eerke Boiten and Mark Ryan) for Formal Aspects of Computing (Springer), Special issue on description, analysis and verification of cryptographic primitives and cryptography-based security protocols
• 2014-2015: Guest editor (with Xun Yi and Elisa Bertino) for Journal of Information Security and Applications, Special issue on Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing

PC member

• 2023: E-Vote-ID'23 ICICS'23
• 2021: FC'21, ESORCIS'21
• 2020: ESORCIS'20, SSR'20
• 2019: Indocrypt'19 (co-chair), SSR'19 (co-chair), PKC'19
• 2018: Inscrypt'18, IEEE Blockchain'18, FC'18
• 2017: ESORCIS'17, PST'17, ACNS'17, ASIACCS'17, SSR'17
• 2016: Inscrypt'16, IEEE WIFS'16, SSR'16, ESORCIS'16, FC'16, Bitcoin'16, ASIACCS'16, ACNS'16, CPSS'06
• 2015: Passwords'15, Inscrypt'15, AsiaCCS'15, ESORICS'15, SPW'15, SSR'15, FiCloud'15 (Security & Privacy track)
• 2014: IEEE CloudCom (Security & Privacy track), Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC), Inscrypt'14
• 2013: CryptoForma, IEEE CloudCom (Security & Privacy track), Australasian Information Security Conference
• 2012: IEEE CloudCom (Security & Privacy track)

Public talks

• Keynote at ICICS 2020 on "End-to-end verifiable e-voting for real-world elections".
• Keynote at IEM-ICDC 2020 on "Verifiable e-auction without auctioneers".
• Keynote at ESORICS DeSECSys 2020 on "Sealed-bid Auctions without Auctioneers"
• Tutorial at Indocrypt'19 on "More Practical Multi-party Computation"

Journal reviewer

• 2022: IEEE TDSC
• 2021: IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, IEEE TDSC
• 2020: IEEE TIFS, Security and Privacy
• 2019: IEEE TIFS
• 2019: IEEE TIFS, Computers & Security IET Information Security
• 2018: International Journal of Finance & Economics
• 2017: Computer Journal, IEEE TDSC
• 2016: IEEE TDSC, ACM TOPS, IEEE S&P
• 2015: Springer IJIS, IEEE TDSC, Elsevier Sustainable Computing, Wiley SCN, Elsevier JISA
• 2014: IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, Journal of Computer Security, Springer IJIS, Wiley SCN, JCIS, Elsevier JISA
• 2013: IEEE TIFS, IEEE TC, IEEE TII, IEEE S&P, IET Information Security, Wiley SCN, Wiley C&C, Springer IJIS, Springer DCC

MSc program examiner

• 2019-2024: External examiner for MSc Cyber Security Programme at School of Computing and Communications, University of Lancaster.
• 2017-2022: External examiner for MSc programs on Cyber Security and Advanced Computer Science at the School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham.

PhD thesis examination

• 2017: External examiner for Pavlos Ioannis Pyrros Chaidos from University College London on "Zero knowledge protocols and applications"
• 2016: External examiner for Jose Miguel Perez Urquidi from University of Luxembourg on "Attribute-based signatures with traceability and verifiable controllable linkability"
• 2016: External examiner for Franziskus Kiefer from University of Surrey on "Advancements in Password-based Cryptography"
• 2015: External examiner for Ali El Kaafarani from University of Bath on "Traceability, Linkability and Policy Hiding in Attribute-Based Signature Schemes"
• 2011: Internal examiner for Ahmad Salah El Ahmad on "The robustness of text CAPTCHAs"

External interview panel

• 2018: External member in the interview panel for Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Security, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Grant reviewer

• 2021: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, Luxembourg national research fund (FNR)
• 2020: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (x2), Luxembourg national research fund (FNR)
• 2019: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme
• 2017: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (x2)
• 2016: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (x2)
• 2015: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (x3)
• 2014: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
• 2013: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Brussels Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT), Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)

Standards committee

• 2014-present: BSI IST/33/2 Security techniques and mechanisms (ISO/IEC standards on security)

Membership

• 2016-present: senior member of IEEE
• 2012-2016: member of IEEE
• 2010-2013: CISSP