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A Cybersecurity Professor Disappeared Amid an FBI Search. His Family Is ‘Determined to Fight’

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Nianli Ma , wife of data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang , was fired from her job at Indiana University , Bloomington on March 28 .

Ma appeared at a webinar hosted by the Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF), a nonprofit group formed in early 2021 to advocate for the rights and recognition of Asian American scholars.

Ma worked as a library analyst at the university before she was also abruptly fired from IU days before the FBI searched two of the couple's homes.

MIT professor: What happened to Wang is having broader impacts on academic research community.

Wang has received funding from a variety of federal sources, including the US National Science Foundation , National Institutes of Health , the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , and the US Army Research Office .

“It is clear that such events, together with legislation and hostile rhetorics, are driving out our talents, deterring [researchers] from coming,” Chen said.

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