Peng Gao

Assistant Professor, CCI Faculty Fellow
Department of Computer Science
Virginia Tech

Office: 2217 Knowledgeworks II, 2202 Kraft Drive, Blacksburg, VA 24060

E-mail: penggao [at] vt [dot] edu

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Research Interests

I am broadly interested in security, privacy, systems, and AI. My research focuses on creating scalable, intelligent, secure, and trustworthy systems to solve real-world challenges. My current interests include the domains of advanced threat protection (e.g., detection, investigation, hunting, prevention, etc.), threat intelligence, trustworthy AI, programmable networks, and decentralized AI, systems, and technologies.

I am affiliated with the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) as a faculty fellow.

News

• August 2022: [Funding] 2022 Amazon - Virginia Tech Initiative Faculty Research Award (PI)
• January 2022: [Paper] "A Knowledge Base Question Answering System for Cyber Threat Knowledge Acquisition" accepted to ICDE 2022 Demonstrations Track
• December 2021: [Funding] 2021-22 VT New Faculty Mentoring Grant (Sole PI)
• November 2021: [Funding] 2021 4-VA Collaborative Research Grant (PI)
• October 2021: [Funding] 2021 Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Cybersecurity Research Collaboration Grant (PI)
• October 2021: [Funding] 2021 Cisco Research Award (Sole PI)
• October 2021: [Paper] "PrivGuard: Privacy Regulation Compliance Made Easier" accepted to USENIX Security 2022
• August 2021: [Paper] "Back-Propagating System Dependency Impact for Attack Investigation" accepted to USENIX Security 2022
• July 2021: [Funding] 2021 Google Cloud Research Credits Award (Sole PI)
• May 2021: [Paper] "Make Web3.0 Connected" accepted to IEEE TDSC 2021

To prospective students: I'm looking for strong and highly motivated Ph.D. students, postdocs, visiting scholars, undergraduate/M.S. interns, etc. If you are interested in joining my group, please send an email to penggao90 [at] gmail [dot] com with your CV.