Dr. Guofei Gu, professor and Lynn ’84 and Bill Crane ’83 Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to malware detection and security of next-generation networks.
IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. The IEEE grade of fellow is conferred by the IEEE board of directors upon a person with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. Less than 0.1% of voting members are selected annually for this member grade elevation.
Gu is also the director of the SUCCESS (Secure Communication and Computer Systems) Lab at Texas A&M, where he and his students are involved in cutting-edge network and system security research. He received his doctorate in computer science from the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.
His research interests include internet malware detection and defense, software-defined programmable security (e.g., software-defined networking/network functions virtualization), mobile and internet of things security, artificial intelligence security, and intrusion/anomaly detection.
Gu is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2010), Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award (2013), IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) Best Student Paper Award (2010), International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Best Paper Award (2015), Texas A&M Dean of Engineering Excellence Award, Presidential Impact Fellow (2019), Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (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 software-defined networking security. Gu has served on the program committees of top-tier security conferences such as IEEE S&P, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer and Communications Security, USENIX Security, and Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, among many others. He is a distinguished member of the ACM, an associate editor for the IEEE’s journal, Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and the steering committee co-chair for the International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks. He recently co-chaired the 2018 NSF Programmable System Security in a Software Defined World workshop.
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