Cheng Gongye
Offensive Hardware Security Researcher at NVIDIA
California, United States
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Top SchoolCheng Gongye is an Offensive Hardware Security Researcher at NVIDIA with a Ph.D. in hardware security from Northeastern University and a decade of experience probing vulnerabilities at the intersection of hardware and deep neural networks. His work blends rigorous academic research—mentored by Prof. Yunsi Fei—with hands-on industry practice, including prior internships and a research assistantship focused on DNN attack surfaces and mitigation strategies. Based in California, he brings practical expertise in translating complex threat models into testable hardware exploits and defenses for production-grade platforms. Notably, Cheng has moved seamlessly between academia and industry, turning theoretical insights from his doctoral research into actionable security evaluations within NVIDIA’s hardware ecosystem.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor's Degree, Doctor's Degree at Northeastern UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
cat7
llc6
director4
snmp4
perl4
swig3
intel2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cgongye/music_genre_classification
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
c-gongye/decaptcha
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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