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Not necessarily -- if there's evidence of the disappearance being across state borders, FBI might get involved because that's now federal jurisdiction. Similarl
by genocidicbunny 2y ago
Not necessarily -- if there's evidence of the disappearance being across state borders, FBI might get involved because that's now federal jurisdiction. Similarly, if it's someone of high profile, or involved with a high-profile organization, the local police might also choose to hand that over to the FBI to deal with since they can probably get better access.
In this case, this was a professor working on cryptography stuff, which if you will recall was infamously treated as munitions by the US govt for a long time. And he is likely either a naturalized citizen or greencard holder who was originally from China, so there's both an international and potentially geopolitical aspect to it. I suspect that if the local police were involved, they very quickly handed that off to the FBI. There aren't many police forces in the US equipped to deal with that nexus of factors.
- formerly_proven 2y agoThe article claims his status is unknown ("Their resident status (e.g. US citizens or green card holders) is currently unknown."), but I doubt a non-citizen could be "Director of NSF Center for Distributed Confidential Computing".
- jltsiren 2y agoThe "center" in that means a collaborative project with multiple PIs instead of a grant used to fund a single lab. The total funding for the project in the current funding cycle seems to be ~$10 million over 5 years: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/simpleSearchResult?queryText=%22Center+for+Distributed+Confidential+Computing%22 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/simpleSearchResult?queryText...
- emmelaich 2y agoYou can become a police officer in California without being a citizen(*). So who knows? I doubt there's any official rule against this position regarding citizenship. Or dual citizenship. (*) Albeit with full legal work authorization.
- Animats 2y agoThe main site of the Center for Distributed Confidential Computing[1] is up, and the chart of "principle investigators" still shows XiaoFeng Wang as the center director. But many other links on that site are broken and pages have been cut down, compared to an archive from last month.[2] They used to have a Github.[3] But now it says "No public repositories". Here's their NSF funding.[4][5] About US$3 million. Xiaogang (Cliff) Wang is listed as the principal investigator. [1] http://nsf-cdcc.org/principle-investigators/ http://nsf-cdcc.org/principle-investigators/ [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250120221302/https://nsf-cdcc.org/people/principle-investigators/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250120221302/https://nsf-cdcc.... [3] https://github.com/CDCC-Project https://github.com/CDCC-Project [4] https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-awards-advance-cybersecurity-efforts https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-awards-advance-cybers... [5] https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2207231&HistoricalAwards=false https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2207231&His...
- Animats 2y agoIf you know anything about that organization, please follow up. Did something happen to the organization? Did they somehow offend the administration?
- hovav 2y ago> Xiaogang (Cliff) Wang is listed as the principal investigator. No, you are misreading the award abstract. Cliff Wang is the program manager at NSF who is the point of contact for the investigators.
- Animats 2y agoAh. Wrong box on the form. XiaoFeng Wang is in the Principal Investigator box. Was NSF funding for the project cancelled?
- genocidicbunny 2y agoYou're right, I've updated my comment to be less authoritative on the residency status.