Danny Huang
Assistant Professor at New York University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDanny Huang is an Assistant Professor and director of NYU mLab with 11 years of experience at the intersection of internet security, privacy, and systems. He transitioned from postdoctoral research at Princeton—where he focused on IoT security and published on cryptocurrencies stemming from his PhD—to leading applied security research and lab operations at NYU. His background includes hands-on industry experience at Google’s Abuse Team, where he built tools and published analyses on ad-injection, account sales, and Maps abuse. Danny blends rigorous academic training (PhD, UCSD) with practical engineering instincts, routinely turning research insights into deployable measurement and mitigation tools. Based in Boston, he maintains an active research presence and public-facing portfolio of work at hdanny.org that surfaces both academic outputs and applied findings. Colleagues describe him as a researcher-engineer who privileges reproducible measurement and real-world impact.
11 years of coding experience
University of California San DiegoHigh School (Singapore), High School (Singapore) at Raffles InstitutionB.A. with Honors, Computer Science, B.A. with Honors, Computer Science at Williams College
English, Chinese
Github Skills (25)
inspector10
ifttt10
wireshark10
knx9
ranking9
react8
computer-science8
science8
iot8
skeleton2
machine-learning1
extraction1
networking1
security1
scanner1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nyu-mlab/iot-inspector-local
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
nyu-mlab/k12-school-security-privacy
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 40 pushes in 8 months
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