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I want to point out that, as far as I can tell, the advisor is still active at the university [1] and even presented the questionable paper at the conference [2
by tnecniv 6y ago
I want to point out that, as far as I can tell, the advisor is still active at the university [1] and even presented the questionable paper at the conference [2]. This is pretty disturbing and I haven't found any more info on what the school has done outside some vague internal investigation [3]. Does anybody know if the university is actually conducting a thorough investigation and whether or not it's ongoing?
As a PhD student, this is disgusts me. I've witnessed my share of awful, exploitative lab situations but this takes the cake. It seems to me that most of the time, professors only receive soft punishments (e.g. people in the department warning prospective students to think twice about joining a lab) unless the incident draws enough bad press.
[1] http://www.taoli.ece.ufl.edu/ http://www.taoli.ece.ufl.edu/
[2] https://twitter.com/VHuixiang/status/1146524212279955458 https://twitter.com/VHuixiang/status/1146524212279955458
[3] https://bit.ly/2UsrMsa https://bit.ly/2UsrMsa
- choppaface 6y agoThere's also hard evidence of misconduct in the conference review software, which directly contradicts the "investigation" from the conference chairs: https://twitter.com/xexd/status/1222671193527861249 https://twitter.com/xexd/status/1222671193527861249
- throwgeorge 6y agoi'm a phd student at uf (in cs not ece) and from what i can tell nothing has been done to discipline tao. there were mutterings when his student committed suicide but nothing since then.