Scholar
Peng Gao
Google Scholar ID: lJJpxssAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,410
H-index
18
i10-index
23
Publications
20
Co-authors
29
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Google Academic Research Award, 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, 2020.
- 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.
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral Scholar, EECS Department, UC Berkeley, 06/2019-04/2021.
- Visiting Student Researcher, EECS Department, UC Berkeley, 01/2019-06/2019.
- Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia, 06/2018-09/2018.
- Research Intern, Facebook (Meta), 06/2017-09/2017.
- Research Intern, NEC Laboratories America, 10/2016-12/2016.
- Research intern, NEC Laboratories America, 11/2015-01/2016.
- Research intern, Microsoft Research Redmond, 06/2015-09/2015.
Background
- Research Interests: Systems Security, Network Security, (Agentic) AI for Cybersecurity, AI Safety and Security. Bio: Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
Miscellany
- Prospective students: I am seeking highly motivated Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers to join my lab. If you’re interested, please email your CV and transcript to penggao.jobs [at] gmail [dot] com. In your message, please include a brief statement explaining your understanding of our research topics and relevant publications. While I may not be able to respond to every message due to the volume of inquiries, I genuinely appreciate your interest.
