Neil Zhenqiang Gong
Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science (secondary appointment)
Duke University
Email: neil.gong@duke.edu
Short Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science (secondary appointment) at Duke University since Fall 2019. I am broadly interested in cybersecurity and data privacy with a recent focus on the intersections between security, privacy, and machine learning. On one hand, I leverage machine learning techniques to study security and privacy. On the other hand, I build secure and privacy-preserving machine learning. I am also interested in mobile and IoT security, privacy, and forensics. My research has been supported by NSF, NIST CSAFE, etc.. I received a B.E. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 (with the highest honor) and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 2015. During 2015-2019, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. I have received the following honors and awards:- 2020 IBM Faculty Award
- 2020 Rising Star Award, Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing
- 2020 DeepMind Best Extended Abstract Award, CVPR Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning in Computer Vision
- 2019 NDSS Distinguished Paper Award Honorable Mention
- 2018 NSF CAREER Award
- 2018 SADFE Best Paper Award
- 2017 INFOCOM paper was 1 of 10 selected for fast tracking to IEEE TNSE
- 2012 PNAS paper was selected as "The Best Scientific Figures in 2012" by WIRED
- 2010 Guo Moruo Scholarship (the highest honor for USTC undergraduates)
I'm looking for postdocs, Ph.D students, visiting scholars, etc.. If you have interests, please contact me.
Research and Publications
See our research group page.Teaching
- Spring 2020, ECE 590: Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings
Professional Services
Program Committee Members for Conferences and Workshops
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2020, 2021
- Usenix Security Symposium, 2019, 2021
- ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2019, 2020, 2021
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2018, 2019, 2020
- Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2018, 2019, 2020
- Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA), 2019
- ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), 2019, 2020, 2021
- International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020
- ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), Research Track, 2018, 2019, 2020
- International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Security and Privacy Track, 2018
- International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
- Deep Learning and Security Workshop (co-located with IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy), 2018, 2019, 2020
Panelist for Reviewing Proposals
- NSF, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019