Before coming to Texas A&M, he received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are in network and system security, such as Internet malware analysis/detection/defense, software-defined networking (SDN/OpenFlow) security, web and social network security, mobile and Android security, and intrusion/anomaly detection. Dr. Gu is a recipient of 2010 NSF CAREER Award, 2013 AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2010 IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P’10) Best Student Paper Award, and a Google Faculty Research Award. He is currently directing the SUCCESS (Secure Communication and Computer Systems) Lab at TAMU.