Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Neil Gong is interested in cybersecurity and trustworthy AI. 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, Berkeley in 2015. He has received NSF CAREER Award (2018), Army Research Office Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award (2021), Rising Star Award from the Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing (2020), IBM Faculty Award (2020, 2023), Facebook Research Award (2021), and multiple best paper or best paper honorable mention awards.Appointments and Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Contact Information
- Office Location: Box 90291, Durhamn, NC 27708
- Email Address: neil.gong@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- B.S.E. University of Science and Technology of China (China), 2010
- D.Phil. University of California, Berkeley, 2015
Research Interests
Cybersecurity and trustworthy AI
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Young Investigator Award. Army Research Office (ARO). 2021
- Distinguished Paper Award Honorable Mention. NDSS. 2019
- CAREER Award. National Science Foundation. 2018
- Best Paper Award. SADFE. 2018
- Paper Selected for Fast Tracking. INFOCOM. 2017
- PNAS Paper Selected as "The Best Scientific Figures in 2012". WIRED. 2012
- Guo Moruo Scholarship. USTC. 2010
Courses Taught
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
- ECE 891: Internship
- ECE 663: Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings
- ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 560: Computer and Information Security
- ECE 356: Computer Network Architecture
- COMPSCI 356: Computer Network Architecture