Peng Gao
Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolPeng Gao is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech with nine years of research and industry experience at the intersection of security, privacy, systems, and AI. He completed a Ph.D. and M.A. in Electrical Engineering at Princeton and held postdoctoral and visiting positions at UC Berkeley working with Dawn Song, bringing a strong research lineage in trustworthy systems. His background includes research internships at Microsoft, NEC Labs, and practical engineering experience on Facebook's Site Integrity team, enabling him to bridge theory and deployable systems. Gao’s work focuses on making AI and systems more secure and private, and he maintains an academic homepage that curates his publications and projects. An often-overlooked strength is his cross-cultural training—from Shanghai Jiao Tong and an exchange at The University of Hong Kong—that informs a global, multidisciplinary approach to security problems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts (M.A.), Electrical Engineering, Master of Arts (M.A.), Electrical Engineering at Princeton UniversityThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (5)
stream8
complex-event-processing7
stream-processing6
cloud-native5
kafka5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
inspire-group/sybilfuse
Jan 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
gaopeng32/auto-quiz
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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