Faculty

Dr. Gu is a recipient of 2010 NSF CAREER Award, 2013 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2010 IEEE S&P Best Student Paper Award, 2015 ICDCS Best Paper Award, Texas A&M Dean of Engineering Excellence Award, Presidential Impact Fellow, Charles H. Barclay Jr. ’45 Faculty Fellow, TEES Faculty Fellow, TEES Research Impact Award, and Google Faculty Research Award. He is an active member of the security research community and has pioneered several new research directions such as botnet detection/defense and SDN security. Dr. Gu has served on the program committees of top-tier security conferences such as IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and NDSS, among many others. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Distinguished Member, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS) and the Steering Committee co-chair for International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm). He recently co-chaired the 2018 NSF Workshop on Programmable System Security in a Software Defined World. He is currently directing the SUCCESS Lab at TAMU. For more information, please visit his personal website.