Neil Zhenqiang Gong Ph.D. Student Computer Science Division University of California, Berkeley Office: Soda Hall 721 Email: neilz.gong@berkeley.edu

Short Bio

I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Dawn Song. I also worked with Prof. George Oster. Prior to Berkeley, I studied computer science at the University of Science and Technology of China(USTC), and obtained my B.E. in computer science in 2010. During my undergraduate, I worked with Prof. Guang-Zhong Sun. And I did internships at Microsoft Research Asia in summer 2009 and from March 2010 to June 2010, working in Dr. Xing Xie's group.

Research Interests

Currently, I'm interested in network science, machine learning and their applications in security and privacy. In the past, I've worked on database query processing.

Selected Publication

• Arvind Narayanan, Hristo Spassimirov Paskov, Neil Zhenqiang Gong, John Bethencourt, Eui Chul Richard Shin, Emil Stefanov and Dawn Song . "On the Feasibility of Internet-Scale Author Identification". In IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (IEEE S&P), to appear , 2012.
• Zhenqiang Gong, Nick Matzke, Bard Ermentrout, Dawn Song, Jann E. Vendetti, Montgomery Slatkin and George Oster. "The evolution of patterns on Conus shells" . In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2012.

• PNAS Highlights
• Featured in ScienceDaily, PhysOrg, News-Medical, Bare Essentials News, etc.

• Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Ameet Talwalkar, Lester Mackey, Ling Huang, Eui Chul Richard Shin, Emil Stefanov, Elaine(Runting) Shi and Dawn Song . "Predicting Links and Inferring Attributes using a Social-Attribute Network (SAN)". In CoRR abs/1112.3265, 2011.
• Dongqu Chen, Guang-Zhong Sun, Neil Zhenqiang Gong. "Efficient Approximate Top-k Query Algorithm Using Cube Index". In the 13th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), 2011.
• Zhenqiang Gong. "Parallel Algorithms for Top-k Query Processing". Undergraduate Poster presented at SIGMOD, 2010.
• Zhenqiang Gong, Guangzhong Sun, Xing Xie. "Protecting Privacy in Location-Based Services Using K-Anonymity without Cloaked Region". In the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2010. [long version]
• Zhenqiang Gong, Guangzhong Sun, Jing Yuan, Yanjing Zhong. "Efficient Top-k Query Algorithms Using K-Skyband Partition". In the 4th International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems (INFOSCALE), 2009.

Professional Activities

• External reviewer of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), 2010.

Selected Honors

• 2010 SIGMOD Undergraduate Poster Competition Award.
• 2009 Guo Moruo Scholarship, the highest honor for undergraduate students at USTC.