A federal jury on May 4 found an Illinois math professor guilty of failing to disclose a foreign bank account but dismissed grant fraud charges, the latest conviction stemming from a crackdown on Chinese influence in U.S. research launched by the Trump administration.
Xiao Mingqing, a Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale professor, was convicted on four counts of violating tax laws by failing to report to U.S. authorities a Chinese bank account created to support his research collaborations in China.
But he was cleared of lying to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and his university about ties to Shenzhen University and Chinese research funding agencies in connection with a 2019 NSF grant he received.
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