Neil Gong

Gong

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Neil Gong joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University in 2019. He is broadly interested in cybersecurity and data privacy with a recent focus on the intersections between security, privacy, and machine learning. On one hand, he leverages machine learning techniques to study security and privacy. On the other hand, he builds secure and privacy-preserving machine learning. He received a B.E. from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) 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, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University.  

Selected honors and awards

  • 2021 Army Research Office (ARO) Young Investigator Award
  • 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)

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Education

Ph.D, University of California at Berkeley, 2015

B.E., University of Science and Technology of China, 2010