Hamed Haddadi (Persian: حامد حدادی, Persian pronunciation: [hɑmɛd hæddɑdi]) is the Professor of Human-Centred Systems at the Department of Computing in Imperial College London, a Fellow of UKRI,[1] and the Chief Scientist at Brave Software, leading the Brave research team.[2] He is known for establishing the field of Human-Data Interaction,[3] a sub-field of HCI concerned with the issue of increasingly pervasive data collection and how this is opaque to end users of digital systems. He began the HDI Network,[4] with subsequent adoption by BBC R&D for developing technologies that support digital rights in relation to personal data.[5][6]
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 Hamed Haddadi | |
| Born | March 1981 (age 43) |
| Citizenship | British, Iranian |
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| Institutions | Imperial College London Brave Software |
| Thesis | Topological characteristics of IP networks (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Miguel Rio |
| Website | https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/h.haddadi |
Education
editHaddadi graduated from University College London with a BEng in 2003[7] and his PhD in 2008 for research into Internet topology and routing protocols supervised by Miguel Rio, Andrew Moore, and Richard Mortier.[8]
During his undergraduate studies, Haddadi spent two summers at Sony Semiconductors working on ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Limited for Sony devices.[9] During his PhD, he spent time working at Intel Research in Cambridge and the University of Adelaide.
Research and teaching
editHaddadi is an editor of Privacy by Design for the Internet of Things[10] published in 2021 by the Institution of Engineering and Technology. The book draws on interdisciplinary research to delineate the challenges of building accountability into the Internet of Things and explores solutions for improving the state-of-the-art ranging from distributed data analytics[10]: 181–210 to accountability[10]: 127–152 and data protection[10]: 153–179 by design.
At Imperial College London, Hamed teaches at the Department of Computing as well as the MSc in Security and Resilience course[11] in the Institute for Security Science and Technology as a Security Science Fellow.[12]
During his time as a postdoctoral researcher, Haddadi worked with the CHDI Foundation on a sheep model of Huntington's Disease, leading to the discovery of leadership and selfishness in sheep flocks.[13][14]
Haddadi primarily researches privacy. security, and computer networking. In 2013, Haddadi co-authored the open source ACM SIGCOMM eBook on Recent Advances in Networking.[15] In 2015 he established the Human-Data Interaction interest group.[3]
Since 2021, Haddadi has been the Chief Scientist of Brave after a period there as a visiting professor. He publishes papers on the privacy risks of search engine advertising[16] and new approaches to preventing tracking in web browsers.[17] He also has been investigating the use of federated learning as an alternative to the advertising-driven economy.[18]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ UKRI (2022). "Securing the Next Billion Consumer Devices on the Edge".
- ^ "Brave Research". www.brave.com/research.
- ^ a b Haddadi, Hamed (21 October 2015). "HDI People". hdiresearch.org.
- ^ Haddadi, Hamed (July 2018). "HDI Network People". hdi-network.org.
- ^ "Human Data Interaction". bbc.com. 21 October 2017.
- ^ "Why the BBC does not want to store your data". BBC. 2 July 2019.
- ^ "Hamed Haddadi BEng Project: RDS Encoder" (PDF). 2003.
- ^ Haddado, Hamed (2008). Topological characteristics of IP networks. ucl.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London.
- ^ "About Hamed Haddadi". 2022.
- ^ a b c d Crabtree, Andrew; Haddadi, Hamed; Mortier, Richard (2022). Privacy by Design for the Internet of Things (1st ed.). London: Institution of Engineering and Technology. ISBN 978-1-83953-139-2.
- ^ "MSc in Security and Resilience". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ "Institute for Security Science and Technology Staff". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 October 2023.
- ^ King, Andrew J.; Wilson, Alan M.; Wilshin, Simon D.; Lowe, John; Haddadi, Hamed; Hailes, Stephen; Morton, A. Jennifer (July 2012). "Selfish-herd behaviour of sheep under threat". Current Biology. 22 (14): R561–R562. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.05.008. ISSN 0960-9822.
- ^ "Herding sheep really are selfish". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
- ^ Hamed Haddadi, Olivier Bonaventure. "Recent Advances in Networking (ACM SIGCOMM eBook)".
- ^ Chouki, Salim; Goga, Oana; Haddadi, Hamed; Snyder, Peter (October 2023). Understanding the Privacy Risks of Popular Search Engine Advertising Systems. Internet Measurement Conference. arXiv:2308.15309. doi:10.1145/3618257.3624823.
- ^ Snyder, Peter; Karami, Soroush; Edelstein, Arthur; Livshits, Benjamin; Haddaddi, Hamed (2023). Pool-Party: Exploiting Browser Resource Pools for Web Tracking (PDF). USENIX Security Symposium.
- ^ Irene Ng and Hamed Haddadi (28 December 2018). "Decentralised AI has the potential to upend the online economy". Wired UK.