Dr. Neil Gong

Associate Professor

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Biography

Neil Gong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. His research focuses on cybersecurity and trustworthy artificial intelligence. He earned his B.E. from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010, graduating with the highest honor. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley in 2015. Over the years, Professor Gong has received numerous accolades, including the NSF CAREER Award in 2018 and the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award in 2021. Additionally, he has been recognized as a Rising Star by the Association of Chinese Scholars in Computing in 2020 and has received multiple awards for his research papers. His work includes significant contributions to the fields of attribute inference attacks and defense mechanisms in adversarial machine learning environments.

Research Interests

Awards

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NSF CAREER Award

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Army Research Office Young Investigator Program Award

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Rising Star Award

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IBM Faculty Award

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IBM Faculty Award

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Facebook Research Award

Courses

ECE 899: Special Readings ECE 891: Internship ECE 663: Machine Learning Adversarial Settings ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE 356: Computer Network Architecture COMPSCI 394: Research Independent Study

Requirements for Duke University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.2
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Multivariable Calculus Introduction to Physics (mechanics) Introduction to Chemistry
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Specialization Notes

Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)