Directory profile for Dr. Na Gong

Dr. Gong is Professor and Larry Drummond Endowed Chair​ in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Alabama (UA). Before joining UA, she was Warren Nicholson Endowed Professor and the Founding Director of ​Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Microelectronics (IAIM) at the University of South Alabama (USA), Mobile, AL. ​Dr. Gong received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (SUNY), in 2013. Her current research interests include hardware design for privacy, edge artificial intelligence (AI), and intelligent VLSI circuits and systems. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and several other agencies. She has published over 110 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Dr. Gong has received a number of awards for her research contributions, including best paper/presentation awards and nominations at top international conferences (e.g., EIT 2016, ISLPED 2016, ISQED 2016, ISVLSI 2019, CCAI 2024), as well as the Thomas C. Evans Engineering Education Paper Award (2024). She was named Scholar of the Year by Phi Kappa Phi in 2021, received the USA Academic Research Excellence Award in 2023, and the National Alumni Association Faculty Innovation Award in 2024. Dr. Gong is also an Associate Editor for three prestigious international journals and has served on the program committees of numerous IEEE international conferences.