Austin Hounsel
304 Sherrerd Hall
Princeton University
ahounsel at cs princeton edu
I'm a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department at Princeton University.
My advisor is Nick Feamster.
Generally speaking, I'm interested in Internet performance, privacy, and censorship.
Publications
- Encryption without Centralization: Distributing DNS Queries Across Recursive Resolvers
- Austin Hounsel, Paul Schmitt, Kevin Borgolte, Nick Feamster
- ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop
- Virtual. July 2021.
- Can Encrypted DNS Be Fast?
- Austin Hounsel, Paul Schmitt, Kevin Borgolte, Nick Feamster
- Passive and Active Measurement Conference
- Virtual. March 2021.
- Identifying Disinformation Websites Using Infrastructure Features
- Austin Hounsel, Jordan Holland, Ben Kaiser, Kevin Borgolte, Nick Feamster, Jonathan Mayer
- USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet
- Virtual. August 2020.
- Source code
- Comparing the Effects of DNS, DoT, and DoH on Web Performance
- Austin Hounsel, Kevin Borgolte, Paul Schmitt, Jordan Holland, Nick Feamster
- The Web Conference
- Taipei, Taiwan. April 2020.
- Competition, Privacy, and Performance in the Internet Ecosystem: The Impact of Centralized DNS over HTTPS
- Tithi Chattopadhyay, Paul Schmitt, Kevin Borgolte, Jordan Holland, Austin Hounsel, Nick Feamster
- Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy
- Washington, DC. September 2019.
- Analyzing the Costs (and Benefits) of DNS, DoT, and DoH for the Modern Web
- Austin Hounsel, Kevin Borgolte, Paul Schmitt, Jordan Holland, Nick Feamster
- ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada. July 2019.
- Automatically Generating a Large, Culture-Specific Blocklist for China
- Austin Hounsel, Prateek Mittal, Nick Feamster
- USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the
Internet
- Baltimore, Maryland. August 2018.
Industry
- Mozilla
- Privacy, Networking & Security Intern
- Summer 2019 & Summer 2020.
Teaching
- COS 461: Computer Networks
- Princeton University
- Spring 2019.
Press
- We Tested Facebookâs Ad Screeners and Some Were Too Strict
- J. Nathan Matias, Austin Hounsel, Melissa Hopkins
- The Atlantic
- November 2018.
Education
- Princeton University
- Ph.D. Computer Science
- 2017 - Present.
- Princeton University
- M.A. Computer Science
- 2017 - 2019.
- The University of Texas at Austin
- B.S.A. Computer Science, Minor in German
- 2013 - 2017.