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

Short Bio

I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Dawn Song. 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.

Research Interests

My research interests include security and privacy, machine learning and network science. In particular, I'm interested in leveraging (deterministic and probabilistic) graphical models for security and privacy. When I was an undergraduate, I worked on database query processing.

Selected Papers

2013

• Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Wenchang Xu and Dawn Song. "Reciprocity in Social Networks: Measurements, Predictions, and Implications". In arXiv:1302.6309, 2013. [Google+ dataset]
• Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Ameet Talwalkar, Lester Mackey, Ling Huang, Eui Chul Richard Shin, Emil Stefanov, Elaine(Runting) Shi and Dawn Song . "Joint Link Prediction and Attribute Inference using a Social-Attribute Network". Accepted by ACM Transaction on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), 2013. [Google+ dataset]

2012

• Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Wenchang Xu, Ling Huang, Prateek Mittal, Emil Stefanov, Vyas Sekar and Dawn Song. "Evolution of Social-Attribute Networks: Measurements, Modeling, and Implications using Google+". In ACM/USENIX Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2012. [Google+ dataset]
• Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Ameet Talwalkar, Lester Mackey, Ling Huang, Eui Chul Richard Shin, Emil Stefanov, Elaine(Runting) Shi and Dawn Song. "Jointly Predicting Links and Inferring Attributes using a Social-Attribute Network (SAN)". In ACM Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis (SNA-KDD), 2012. [Google+ dataset]
• 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), 2012. [slides]

• Featured in National Public Radio's On The Media, Boing Boing, Slashdot.

• 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) (IF=9.771), 109(5), 2012.

• Featured in PNAS Highlights, PNAS In This Issue, ScienceDaily, PhysOrg, WIRED Science's "The Best Scientific Figures of 2012" , etc.

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.

2010

• 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]

2009

• 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.

Selected Honors

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