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Neil Gong

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Box 90291, Durhamn, NC 27708

Research Interests


Cybersecurity and trustworthy AI

Selected Grants


Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Securing LLMs against Prompt Injection Attacks

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2025 - 2029

CC* Integration-Large: Scaling Scientific Workloads on Distributed Commodity GPUs and Storage through Campus-level RDMA Networking

ResearchCollaborating Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2025 - 2027

AI Institute: Athena: AI-Driven Next-generation Networks at the Edge

ResearchSenior Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2021 - 2027

Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE:Small: Securing Recommender Systems against Data Poisoning Attacks

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2026

CICI: RSSD: Massive Internal System Traffic Research Analysis and Logging

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2026

Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Towards Secure Federated Learning

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2026

CAREER: Graph-Based Security Analytics: New Algorithms, Robustness under Adversarial Settings, and Robustness Enhancements

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2026

Provably Secure Machine Learning

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Army Research Office · 2021 - 2025

SaTC: Core: Medium: Collaborative: Towards Building Robust Machine Learning Systems

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2024

External Relationships


  • Fidelity
  • Schmidt Sciences
  • Singapore Management University
  • Taiwan Academic Cybersecurity Center
  • The Ohio State University
  • The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • University of Minnesota Twin Cities

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