my name is Xuehui Hu, a PhD student at the department of engineering, King's College London, UK, working with Prof. Nishanth Sastry. My PhD project focuses on the analysis of online tracking across regions and potential risks of users’ privacy. The first sub-focus is the data tracking from first-party sites (visited sites from users) and third-party sites (other domains for tracking or other features). We developed and published a Chrome extension about third-party tracking visualisation for data collection. Another key to my study is GDPR that released in 2018 for EU regions. The way GDPR serves/protects users, pros and cons of data protection mechanism in different countries are both contributions. The last sub-focus is about the user demand for multi-account containers. Instead of the only assessment of the number of third parties, the risk based on the number of connections among third parties is the point.
I have 3-year Python experience on data analytics, 2-year Javascript (experience of add-on publishing) and data crawling by Selenium to support my research intern. According to my research fields,
- Hu, Xuehui, and Nishanth Sastry. "What a Tangled Web We Weave: Understanding the Interconnectedness of the Third Party Cookie Ecosystem." 12th ACM Conference on Web Science. 2020.
- Hu, Xuehui, Guillermo Suarez de Tangil, and Nishanth Sastry. "Multi-country Study of Third Party Trackers from Real Browser Histories." IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P). 2020. Genova, Italy.
- Hu, Xuehui, and Nishanth Sastry. "Characterising Third Party Cookie Usage in the EU after GDPR." Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. 2019.
Email: xuehui.hu@kcl.ac.uk Having idea with my interested are? contact my email and we could discuss.