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I just heard that a cryptography professor at Indiana University had his house raided and was fired. Don’t know much more. https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2025/03/28/fbi-department-of-homeland-security-agents-search-house-in-bloomington-indiana/82710451007/
Xiaofeng’s profile is no longer available on IU sites. So here’s his Google Scholar. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pONu-5EAAAAJ&hl=en
Update to this story: I’ve now heard reports that Wang’s students have been unable to contact him since mid-March. His website was taken down on the 19th.
Some early non-Indiana coverage of this story. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sketchy-first-reports
The university does not appear to have memory-holed his wife.
@zl2tod @matthew_d_green her university webpage is down now https://libraries.indiana.edu/nianli-ma leads to an access denied message
@matthew_d_green FBI not saying much of anything https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/iu-professor-bloomington-carmel-fbi-search
@Nonya_Bidniss @matthew_d_green if the FBI is involved doesn't that point more toward investigating espionage than immigration?
@matthew_d_green this is really suspicious and worrisome. Even if the Professor was a spy, not having a trace of him is concerning.
But with what's going on in this country right now, I'm not surprised.
@matthew_d_green Is this related to the house searched in Carmel by the FBI?
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/fbi-searches-home-in-carmel-indiana-seizes-boxes-of-evidence/531-969e30e2-e599-4c08-b72c-3ba6227cdb89
@matthew_d_green Keep up posted!
张殿李@matthew_d_green Why does it completely fail to surprise me that the two people disappeared were ethnically Chinese?
There's a reason why people who've been living in the USA for decades doing research are now coming back to China. "Chinese spies" are the new "Arab terrorists" in the American zeitgeist.