Peng Gao
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech
Office: Gilbert Place 4104
E-mail: penggao@vt.edu
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I am an assistant professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in Computer Science at UC Berkeley (with Dawn Song). I received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (with Prateek Mittal, Sanjeev R. Kulkarni). I received my B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Prospective students: I am looking for strong and motivated postdocs, Ph.D. students, MS students, and interns to join my lab. If you are interested, please email your CV to penggao.jobs [at] gmail [dot] com. In your message, please include a statement explaining your understanding of our research topics and relevant publications.
Research Interests
Systems Security, Network Security, (Agentic) AI for Security, AI and Agent Security and Safety
News
- ACM Senior Member, 2026
- Amazon Research Award (ARA), 2026
- Google Academic Research Award (GARA), 2025
- National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, 2025
- IEEE Senior Member, 2025
- Amazon-VT Initiative Faculty Research Award, 2022
- Meta Research Award Finalist, 2021
- Cisco Research Award, 2021
- Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Faculty Fellow, 2021
- Google Cloud Research Credits Award, 2021
- Amazon Research Award (ARA), 2021
- Microsoft Security AI Research Award, 2020
- CSAW Best Applied Security Paper Award Finalist, 2018
- Princeton University Fellowship in Natural Sciences and Engineering, 2013
- Shanghai Excellent Graduate, 2013
- Li & Fung Scholarship, 2012
- China National Scholarship, 2010, 2011
- SJTU Academic Excellence Scholarship, 2010, 2012
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