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Danny Yuxing Huang is an Assistant Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, affiliated with the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering. He is also associated with the NYU Center for Cybersecurity (CCS), the Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP), and the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT). His research focuses on the security and privacy of consumer-facing technologies, particularly Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and smart homes. Before joining NYU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC San Diego and a BA in Computer Science from Williams College.
His research interests include usable security and privacy for non-experts, networking, and systems. Notable projects include IoT Inspector, a crowdsourced platform for analyzing smart home device traffic, and RouterSense, a health monitoring system using network data. He explores topics such as privacy negotiation in rentals, IoT device vulnerabilities, and ethical AI applications in security.
His work has been featured in news articles highlighting privacy threats in smart homes and K-12 schools. Huang’s contributions span interdisciplinary collaborations across cybersecurity, urban science, and telecommunications. He actively engages in public discourse on cybersecurity education and policy through the NYU CCS.
