Guang Gong (born 1956)[1] studied applied math whose research topics include lightweight cryptography and algebraic coding theory for wireless communication.
Educated in Sichuan China, she works at the University of Waterloo in Canada as a professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and University Research Chair.
[2] 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.
She completed her PhD in 1990 at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
[3][4] She was a postdoctoral researcher with the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni in Italy.