About Me

My name is Zhaojie Hu. I am currently a PhD candidate at University of Central Florida, under the supervision of Dr. Xueqiang Wang. Prior to my doctoral studies, I worked at ByteDance’s Douyin Relationship and Privacy Team. I earned my Master’s degree in Advanced Computer Science from the University of Manchester and my Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering from South China Agricultural University.

My current research interests focus on software supply chain security, privacy compliance, and privacy engineering in AI agent ecosystems.

Publications

(*: Equal Contribution)

[S&P 2026] Navigating Developers’ Quagmire: LLM-Enabled Privacy Compliance Analysis for SDK Integrations
Zhaojie Hu, Xueqiang Wang

[S&P 2026] When Designers Meet GenAI: Understanding the Role of Prompt-to-Design Generators in Privacy Dark Patterns
Jingzhou Ye, Zhaojie Hu, Yao Li, Xueqiang Wang

[USENIX Security 2024] Navigating the Privacy Compliance Maze: Understanding Risks with Privacy-Configurable Mobile SDKs
Yifan Zhang*, Zhaojie Hu*, Xueqiang Wang, Yuhui Hong, Yuhong Nan, XiaoFeng Wang, Jiatao Cheng, Luyi Xing

[Euro S&P 2024] Seeing is Not Always Believing: An Empirical Analysis of Fake Evidence Generators
Zhaojie Hu*, Jingzhou Ye*, Yifan Zhang, Xueqiang Wang

Education

University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Aug. 2023 – present

The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

M.Sc. in Advanced Computer Science, Sep. 2019 - Nov. 2020

South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

B.Eng in Software Engineering, Sep. 2015 – Jun. 2019

Work Experience

University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

Research Assistant, Aug. 2023 - present

ByteDance, Shanghai, China

iOS Engineer, Douyin Relationship and Privacy Team, Dec. 2020 - Jul. 2023

Internship

ByteDance, Shanghai, China

iOS Engineer Intern, Douyin Social Team, Jul. 2020 - Nov. 2020

Macriocode Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China

Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Jul. 2018 - Oct. 2018

Teaching Assistant

• [2024 Fall] CDA5106 - Advanced Computer Architecture
• [2025 Spring] CIS3360 - Security in Computing

Awards and Honors

• ORCGS Doctoral Fellowship, University of Central Florida, 2023-2024

Service

• PC Member: USENIX Security ‘27
• Reviewer: CHI’ 26 (Privacy & Security Track)
• External Reviewer: CCS’ 24, CCS’ 25, AsiaCCS ‘25, USENIX Security ‘26
• Other Reviewing Service: Bentham Science Publishers (Cybersecurity eBook Proposals, 2025)