In the FBI search, the cybersecurity professor disappeared. His family “decided to fight”
The wife of Wang Wang, a professor of data privacy, was fired on Monday during a lifelong job at Indiana University (IU) the same day the FBI searched last month.
“Our family is going to fight not only for themselves, but for the wider research community, and if such allegations are not challenged, they will be affected.”
This is the first public release of MA since the FBI search was conducted in late March. She appeared in a webinar held by the Asian American Scholars Forum (AASF), a nonprofit organization founded in early 2021 to advocate for the rights and recognition of Asian American scholars. According to Indiana Daily Student, he also worked as a library analyst at the university just days before the FBI searched the couple’s two homes.
“I just don’t understand how colleges we devoted to our twenty years of our lives treat us, not even telling us why or due process, especially for my husband,” Jack Ma said. “I lost weight and had difficulty sleeping. I felt constantly in a state of worry and sadness.”
Wang’s case has raised concerns among scholars that a plan to close the Justice Department called the China Initiative is resuming under the new Trump administration. The campaign began during President Trump’s presidency with its stated goal to combat economic espionage, accused by critics of unfairly targeting Chinese-born researchers and other Asian immigrants and Asian-American academic communities. The Justice Department later abandoned the plan after the Biden administration lost or withdraws many related cases.
MIT professor Gang Chen is one of the most eye-catching cases. Chen also spoke at a webinar on Monday. The charges against him were dropped if the federal government found no disclosure was required.
Chen said: “Nelly’s story is heartbreaking. “It has caused my family and many others to experience fear under the China Initiative.” Reading news about you, people can’t stop asking if the Chinese initiative has actually returned. ”
Brian Sun, a member of the AASF Legal Advisory Committee, said at a webinar that there seems to be no evidence that Xiaomi’s case involves any transfer of illegal transfer of technology, or anything that may suggest concerns that have led to China’s initiatives. ”
New York’s U.S. representative Grace Meng delivered a keynote speech at the event, saying she was worried that the current U.S. Presidential Administration’s efforts to restore China’s initiative, “did not do anything meaningfully addressing national security issues, but rather has a profoundly terrifying impact on research and scientific innovation and undermine the lives and destruction of those who have been benefited.”
