Bio

Peng Gao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and a Faculty Fellow with the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI). Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and his B.E. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research lies at the intersection of security and privacy, systems and networking, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on designing scalable, intelligent, and trustworthy solutions to real-world security, privacy, and computing challenges. His work has been published at multiple top-tier venues including IEEE S&P, USENIX Security, CCS, NDSS, EuroS&P, VLDB, USENIX ATC, ICDE, ICSE, and ICLR, and has led to multiple patents and industry adoption. He is an IEEE Senior Member and ACM Senior Member. He frequently serves on the program committees of major security and systems conferences and currently serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the 2018 CSAW Applied Research Finalist, and multiple faculty research awards from Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, and Google.