Bio

Peng Gao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. He is a Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Faculty Fellow. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley (with Prof. Dawn Song). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University (with Prof. Prateek Mittal, Prof. Sanjeev R. Kulkarni). He received his B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interest lies in security and privacy, systems, and AI. His work has been published at top-tier conferences including USENIX Security, USENIX ATC, ACM CCS, ICDE, and ICSE. He is the recipient of several awards including the CSAW 2018 Best Applied Security Paper Award Top-10 Finalists, the 2020 Microsoft Security AI Research Award, the 2020 Amazon Research Award, the 2021 Cisco Research Award, and the 2022 Amazon - Virginia Tech Initiative Faculty Research Award.