A prominent computer scientist who spent 20 years publishing academic papers on encryption, privacy and cybersecurity, raided the home by the FBI after the professor’s profile, email account and phone number were deleted by employer Indiana University. No one knows the reason.
Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the Associate Dean of Research at Indiana University. La Discure in Informatics, Computing and EngineeringFellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a tenured professor at the American Association for Progress in Science and Indiana University in Bloomington. According to his employer, he has been the lead investigator for research projects totaling nearly $23 million over 21 years.
He also co-authors academic papers on a variety of research areas, including encryption, system security, and data privacy, including encryption, system security, and protection of human genomic data. I personally spoke to him three times to ask for articles here, here and here.
“This is not normal in any way.”
In recent weeks, Wang’s email account, phone number, and Profile page At Luddy School, it was quietly erased by his employer. At the same time, Indiana University also deleted the profile for his wife, nianli mawas listed as a lead systems analyst and programmer in the university’s library technology department.
According to The Herald Times in Bloomington is a small fleet of unmarked cars driven by government agents who came down to their king and their home in Bloomington, Massachusetts on Friday. They spent most of the day coming and going to the house and occasionally moving boxes out of the car. Meanwhile, TV station WTHR It has been reported The second home, owned by Wang and Massachusetts, was also searched in Carmel, Indiana. The station said both the resident and the resident’s attorney were on the scene during at least part of the search.
