Guang Gong (born 1956) studied applied math whose research topics include lightweight

cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logy, -logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of Adversary (cryptography), ...

and algebraic

coding theory Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications. Codes are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and computer data storage, data sto ...

for

wireless communication Wireless communication (or just wireless, when the context allows) is the transfer of information (''telecommunication'') between two or more points without the use of an electrical conductor, optical fiber or other continuous guided med ...

. Educated in Sichuan China, she works at the

University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a Public university, public research university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to uptown Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also op ...

in Canada as a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and University Research Chair.

Education

After a 2-year program at Xichang Normal Vocational School, Gong was given a master's degree in applied mathematics in 1985 at the Northwest Institute of Telecommunication Engineering, now

Xidian University Xidian University () is a public university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education, and co-funded by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, SASTIND, and China Electro ...

. She completed her PhD in 1990 at the

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ...

. She was a postdoctoral researcher with the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni in Italy. From 1996 to 1998 she was affiliated working with

Solomon W. Golomb Solomon Wolf Golomb ( ; May 30, 1932 – May 1, 2016) was an American mathematician, engineer, and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, best known for his works on mathematical games. He most notably inven ...

. She moved to the University of Waterloo as an adjunct and later associate professor, and has been full professor there since 2004. She was given a University Research Chair in 2018.

Books

Gong's books include: *''Signal Design for Good Correlation: For Wireless Communication, Cryptography and Radar'' (with

, Cambridge University Press, 2005) *''Communication System Security'' (with Lidong Chen, CRC Press, 2012) *''The Wisdom Of Solomon: The Genius And Legacy Of Solomon Golomb'' (edited with Beatrice Golomb and

Alfred W. Hales Alfred Washington Hales (born November 30, 1938) is an American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and one of the namesakes of the Hales–Jewett theorem. He was born in Pasadena, Cali ...

, World Scientific, 2023)

Recognition

Gong was elected as an

IEEE Fellow , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

in 2014, "for contributions to sequences and cryptography applied to communications and security".

References

External links

Communications Security Lab
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gong, Guang 1956 births Living people Chinese electrical engineers Chinese women engineers Canadian electrical engineers Canadian women engineers Women electrical engineers Coding theorists Cryptographers Xidian University alumni University of Electronic Science and Technology of China alumni Academic staff of the University of Waterloo Fellows of the IEEE