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# Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Neil Zhenqiang Gong has 6 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Jiawen Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawen-shi/), [Lichao Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lichao-sun/), [Pan Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pan-zhou/).

6 papers in our library · 2023–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5009102659) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9900-9309) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131197908) · [**h-index 51**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5009102659) · [213 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009102659) · [8,434 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009102659&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 6 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neil-zhenqiang-gong/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 559 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neil-zhenqiang-gong/cited-by/) · [13 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4389](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/44/#star-4389)

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Neil+Zhenqiang+Gong) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Neil+Zhenqiang+Gong) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Neil+Zhenqiang+Gong) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Neil+Zhenqiang+Gong)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Duke University** Durham · United States 2018–2026 · 146 papersEmployment since 2019 · Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/duke-university/) · [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Iowa State University** Ames · United States 2015–2020 · 24 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/iowa-state-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2011–2015 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Science and Technology of China** Hefei · China 2011 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china/)

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.

📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/)

🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neil-zhenqiang-gong/year/2026/) · [**2023** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neil-zhenqiang-gong/year/2023/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[PromptRobust: Towards Evaluating the Robustness of Large Language Models on Adversarial Prompts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2023-promptrobust-towards-evaluating-robustness-large/)** *(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. **[Formalizing and Benchmarking Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-formalizing-benchmarking-prompt-injection-attacks/)** *(2023 · 84 citations)* LLM-Integrated Applications build their prompts from an instruction and from data taken from outside sources such as resumes or webpages.
3. **[MetaTool Benchmark for Large Language Models: Deciding Whether to Use Tools and Which to Use](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2023-metatool-benchmark-large-language-models/)** *(2023 · 81 citations)* Most earlier tool-use benchmarks for LLMs test how a model fills in tool arguments and handles tool outputs.
4. **[SafeAgent: Safeguarding LLM Agents via an Automated Risk Simulator](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2026-safeagent-safeguarding-llm-agents-automated/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* LLM agents that call tools over multiple turns can cause real damage, such as deleted data or leaked private information.
5. **[Copyright Detective: A Forensic System to Evidence LLMs Flickering Copyright Leakage Risks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-copyright-detective-forensic-system-evidence/)** *(2026)* Copyright Detective is an interactive forensic tool for collecting evidence that LLMs may reproduce copyrighted material.
6. **[Leave My Images Alone: Preventing Multi-Modal Large Language Models from Analyzing Images via Visual Prompt Injection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shao-2026-leave-my-images-alone-preventing/)** *(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; 6 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 Prompts arXiv:2306.04528**Kaijie Zhu, Jindong Wang, Jiaheng Zhou, et al.*2023 · 305 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2023-promptrobust-towards-evaluating-robustness-large/)
2. **[On the Feasibility of Internet-Scale Author Identification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/sp.2012.46) Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy/Proceedings of the ... IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · no summary yet**Arvind Narayanan et al.*2012 · 275 citations*
3. **[Joint Link Prediction and Attribute Inference Using a Social-Attribute Network ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2594455) ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology · no summary yet**Neil Zhenqiang Gong et al.*2014 · 200 citations*
4. **[Evolution of social-attribute networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2398776.2398792) Internet Measurement Conference · no summary yet**Neil Zhenqiang Gong et al.*2012 · 170 citations*
5. **[Provably Secure Federated Learning against Malicious Clients ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i8.16849) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Xiaoyu Cao, Jinyuan Jia, Neil Zhenqiang Gong*2021 · 132 citations*
6. [**Formalizing and Benchmarking Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses arXiv:2310.12815**Yupei Liu, Yuqi Jia, Runpeng Geng, et al.*2023 · 84 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-formalizing-benchmarking-prompt-injection-attacks/)
7. [**MetaTool Benchmark for Large Language Models: Deciding Whether to Use Tools and Which to Use arXiv:2310.03128**Yue Huang, Jiawen Shi, Yuan Li, et al.*2023 · 81 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2023-metatool-benchmark-large-language-models/)
8. **[Detecting Fake Accounts in Online Social Networks at the Time of Registrations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3319535.3363198) ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) · no summary yet**Dong Yuan et al.*2019 · 74 citations*
9. **[DyVal: Dynamic Evaluation of Large Language Models for Reasoning Tasks ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17167) arXiv:2309.17167 · no summary yet**Kaijie Zhu et al.*2023 · 46 citations*
10. **[Evolution of Social-Attribute Networks: Measurements, Modeling, and Implications using Google+ ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0835) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Neil Zhenqiang Gong et al.*2012 · 38 citations*
11. **[PIANO: Proximity-Based User Authentication on Voice-Powered Internet-of-Things Devices ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/icdcs.2017.68) IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) · no summary yet**Neil Zhenqiang Gong et al.*2017 · 19 citations*
12. **[Characterizing and Detecting Malicious Accounts in Privacy-Centric Mobile Social Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3292500.3330702) ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) · no summary yet**Zenghua Xia et al.*2019 · 16 citations*
13. **[A Critical Evaluation of Defenses against Prompt Injection Attacks ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18333) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Yuqi Jia et al.*2025 · 7 citations*
14. **[New Directions in Social Authentication ↗](https://doi.org/10.14722/usec.2015.23002) no summary yet**Sakshi Jain et al.*2015 · 7 citations*
15. **[Reciprocity in Social Networks: Measurements, Predictions, and Implications ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6309) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Neil Zhenqiang Gong, Wenchang Xu, Dawn Xiaodong Song*2013 · 5 citations*
16. **[SafeAgent: Safeguarding LLM Agents via an Automated Risk Simulator](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2026-safeagent-safeguarding-llm-agents-automated/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/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 ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3750555.3811884) ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) · no summary yet**Yuqi Jia et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
18. **[Copyright Detective: A Forensic System to Evidence LLMs Flickering Copyright Leakage Risks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-copyright-detective-forensic-system-evidence/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Guangwei Zhang, Jianing Zhu, Cheng Qian, et al.*2026*
19. **[Leave My Images Alone: Preventing Multi-Modal Large Language Models from Analyzing Images via Visual Prompt Injection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shao-2026-leave-my-images-alone-preventing/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zedian Shao, Hongbin Liu, Yuepeng Hu, et al.*2026*

## Co-authors here

12 of 32 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Jiawen Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawen-shi/) ×2
- [Lichao Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lichao-sun/) ×2
- [Pan Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pan-zhou/) ×2
- [Ahmed Abbasi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-abbasi/)
- [Bo Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-li/)
- [Chaowei Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaowei-xiao/)
- [Cheng Qian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-qian/)
- [Chenrui Fan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenrui-fan/)
- [Dongwon Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongwon-lee/)
- [Guiyao Tie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guiyao-tie/)
- [Hao Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-chen/)
- [Jianing Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianing-zhu/)

## 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)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×3: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×3
- 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); [132 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neil-zhenqiang-gong/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026