🧑‍🔬 Neil Zhenqiang Gong

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Duke UniversityDurham · United States2018–2026 · 146 papersEmployment since 2019 · Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineeringcurrent🎓Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta · United States2026 · 3 paperscurrent🎓Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan · China2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓Iowa State UniversityAmes · United States2015–2020 · 24 papers🎓University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley · United States2011–2015 · 12 papers🎓University of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei · China2011 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. PromptRobust: Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Large Language Models on Adversarial Prompts (2023 · 305 citations)
   The paper argues that LLM robustness research has mostly perturbed input samples. Yet one instruction is typically reused across many inputs, so a flawed prompt can degrade every answer it governs. To study this, the authors build PromptRobust, a benchmark that adapts seven black-box textual attack methods to rewrite…
2. SafeAgent: Safeguarding LLM Agents via an Automated Risk Simulator (2026 · 1 citation)
   LLM agents that call tools over multiple turns can cause real damage, such as deleted data or leaked private information.
3. Leave My Images Alone: Preventing Multi-Modal Large Language Models from Analyzing Images via Visual Prompt Injection (2026)
   Open-weight multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) make it cheap to mine personal photos at scale for identities, locations and other private details.

All works

19 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. PromptRobust: Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Large Language Models on Adversarial PromptsarXiv:2306.04528Kaijie Zhu, Jindong Wang, Jiaheng Zhou, et al.2023 · 305 citations
2. On the Feasibility of Internet-Scale Author Identification ↗Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy/Proceedings of the ... IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · no summary yetArvind Narayanan et al.2012 · 275 citations
3. Joint Link Prediction and Attribute Inference Using a Social-Attribute Network ↗ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology · no summary yetNeil Zhenqiang Gong et al.2014 · 200 citations
4. Evolution of social-attribute networks ↗Internet Measurement Conference · no summary yetNeil Zhenqiang Gong et al.2012 · 170 citations
5. Provably Secure Federated Learning against Malicious Clients ↗Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yetXiaoyu Cao, Jinyuan Jia, Neil Zhenqiang Gong2021 · 132 citations
6. Formalizing and Benchmarking Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses ↗arXiv:2310.12815 · no summary yetYupei Liu et al.2023 · 84 citations
7. MetaTool Benchmark for Large Language Models: Deciding Whether to Use Tools and Which to Use ↗arXiv:2310.03128 · no summary yetYue Huang et al.2023 · 81 citations
8. Detecting Fake Accounts in Online Social Networks at the Time of Registrations ↗ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) · no summary yetDong Yuan et al.2019 · 74 citations
9. DyVal: Dynamic Evaluation of Large Language Models for Reasoning Tasks ↗arXiv:2309.17167 · no summary yetKaijie Zhu et al.2023 · 46 citations
10. Evolution of Social-Attribute Networks: Measurements, Modeling, and Implications using Google+ ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetNeil Zhenqiang Gong et al.2012 · 38 citations
11. PIANO: Proximity-Based User Authentication on Voice-Powered Internet-of-Things Devices ↗IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) · no summary yetNeil Zhenqiang Gong et al.2017 · 19 citations
12. Characterizing and Detecting Malicious Accounts in Privacy-Centric Mobile Social Networks ↗ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) · no summary yetZenghua Xia et al.2019 · 16 citations
13. A Critical Evaluation of Defenses against Prompt Injection Attacks ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetYuqi Jia et al.2025 · 7 citations
14. New Directions in Social Authentication ↗no summary yetSakshi Jain et al.2015 · 7 citations
15. Reciprocity in Social Networks: Measurements, Predictions, and Implications ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetNeil Zhenqiang Gong, Wenchang Xu, Dawn Xiaodong Song2013 · 5 citations
16. SafeAgent: Safeguarding LLM Agents via an Automated Risk SimulatorAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Xueyang Zhou, Weidong Wang, Lin Lu, et al.2026 · 1 citation
17. A Critical Evaluation of Defenses against Prompt Injection Attacks: [Dataset/Tool Paper] ↗ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) · no summary yetYuqi Jia et al.2026 · 1 citation
18. Leave My Images Alone: Preventing Multi-Modal Large Language Models from Analyzing Images via Visual Prompt InjectionAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Zedian Shao, Hongbin Liu, Yuepeng Hu, et al.2026
19. Copyright Detective: A Forensic System to Evidence LLMs Flickering Copyright Leakage Risks ↗Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations) · no summary yetGuangwei Zhang et al.2026

🤝 Co-authors here

12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Guiyao Tie
• Hao Chen
• Jindong Wang
• Kaijie Zhu
• Lichao Sun
• Linyi Yang
• Pan Zhou
• Wei Ye
• Weidong Wang
• Xing Xie
• Yidong Wang
• Yue Zhang

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) ×3: ACL 2026 ×2
• ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD)
• ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
• ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT)
• ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS)
• Internet Measurement Conference
• Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy/Proceedings of the ... IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
• Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 559 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 106 citing papers with a page here →.

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