He works in the areas of ubiquitous computing and usable privacy and security, and his research has been featured in the New York Times, MIT Tech Review, CBS Morning Show, CNN, Slate, and the World Economic Forum. He is an author of the book The Design of Sites. Hong is a cofounder of Wombat Security Technologies, which focuses on effective and measurable cybersecurity training. He has participated in DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel, is an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow, a Kavli Fellow, a PopTech Science Fellow, a New America National Cybersecurity Fellow, and currently holds the HCII Career Development Fellowship. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley and his undergraduate degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology.