Steven Hé (Sīchàng)
Hello there, Steven here:
- Systems programmer, Rustacean, Pythonista, Elixirist, Vimmer.
- Analytical, skeptical, empirical, optimistic nihilist.
- Computer Science Ph.D. student, Networked Systems Lab (NSL), University of Southern California (USC).
- Advisor: Harsha V. Madhyastha.
- Also work with Ramesh Govindan.
- Research Interests: the Web, Networking, SE, PL, HPC.
- 👉 For USC undergrads/MS students interested in CS/EE/DS research.
- For experiences, publications, contact, etc., please see the CV linked below. For more personal info, see About.
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Channel2026 News
- (2026-04-30) 📖🌐 See our paper preprint: DeGenTWeb: A First Look at LLM-Dominant Websites.
2025 News
- (2025-11-08) 💬🌐 I recorded a retroactive presentation for my DeGenTWeb talk at IMC 2025 Student Workshop.
- (2025-10-10) 🪧🌐 See our ACM IMC Poster (accepted earlier, edit: and student workshop slides): Poster: Did I Just Browse A Website Written by LLMs?
- (2025-08-11) 📖🌐 ACM IMC accepted our 2-page student workshop paper: Preprint: Did I Just Browse A Website Written by LLMs?.
- (2025-01-09) 🌐🤖 I sketched the DeGenTWeb project to detect and study LLM-generated text content on the Web.
2024 Fall News
(2024-12-13) 🤖💀 I posted a survey of generative AI problems and countermeasurements, which showed many business, cryptography, and computer vision problems remain in this field.
(2024-11-27) ⭕💀 We paused the JSphere project that classifies the use of JavaScript on the Web by browser API calls. Preliminary results are in a report for a course and a colorful poster.
Feel free to take over this project.
(2024-11-05) 💬🌐 I recorded a retroactive presentation for my RPSLyzer talk at IMC ’24.
(2024-11-05) 💬🌐 I presented the RPSLyzer paper at IMC ’24 in Madrid and met nice people at the conference. The conference has no recordings, unfortunately.
(2024-09-15) 🐍🥲 My Battlesnake “TinyViTMCTS” will go down on the leaderboard because Duke is shutting down the VM it runs on.
(2024-09-12) 📖🌐 I posted the camera-ready PDF version of the RPSLyzer paper. Download it from the Internet Route Verification repository’s Releases.
(2024-08-27) 📖💵 The IMC Student Travel Grant committee generously awarded me funds, so that I can go present my paper at the conference.
(2024-08-23) 🏠🔬 I moved to Los Angeles and joined the USC Networked Systems Lab as a Ph.D. student, working with Professor Harsha V. Madhyastha.
(2024-07-31) 📖🎉 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2024 accepted our paper, RPSLyzer: Characterization and Verification of Policies in Internet Routing Registries, by Sichang He, Italo Cunha, and Ethan Katz-Bassett. We will post drafts in the Internet Route Verification repository.
(2024-07-24) 🌐⭕ I sketched the JSphere project to study the overuse of JavaScript in websites.
(2024-07-03) 🐙🇬🇧 I started developing the Natural Syntax Language Server to highlight part-of-speech for ease of reading.
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