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Cybersecurity Professor Faced China Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing (wired.com) 21

The FBI searched two homes of Indiana University Bloomington data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang last week, following months of university inquiries into whether he received unreported research funding from China, WIRED reported Wednesday.

Wang, who leads the Center for Distributed Confidential Computing established with a $3 million National Science Foundation grant, was terminated on March 28 via email from the university provost. The university had contacted Wang in December regarding a 2017-2018 grant in China that listed him as a researcher, questioning whether he properly disclosed the funding to IU and in applications for U.S. federal research grants.

Jason Covert, Wang's attorney, said Wang and his wife Nianli Ma, whose employee profile was also removed, are "safe" and neither has been arrested. The couple's legal team has viewed a search warrant but received no affidavit establishing probable cause.

Cybersecurity Professor Faced China Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing

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  • by hyades1 ( 1149581 ) on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @04:18PM (#65277323)

    This story has exposed my failure to keep up with some of the expressions being used by kids these days. The story is about Wang disappearing. In my day, we called it "hide the sausage".

  • By going after this guy, the US is actually loosing more know-how, better to have shared it with China, then loosing it completely now.. how stupid can you get..
  • by js_sebastian ( 946118 ) on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @06:03PM (#65277519)
    Whatever the story behind this may be, it may be good context to know that Xiaofeng Wang is, by at least some metrics of academic success, the top researcher in his field in the world: https://nebelwelt.net/pubstats... [nebelwelt.net]

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