A lawyer for Xiaofeng Wang and his wife says they are "safe" after FBI searches of their homes and Wang's sudden dismissal from Indiana University, where he taught for over 20 years.

IU computer science faculty condemned professor Xiaofeng Wang’s termination and asked Provost Rahul Shrivastav to revoke the move in a letter sent to him Wednesday.

XiaoFeng Wang, the tenured cybersecurity professor fired by Indiana University the same day as mysterious FBI raids on his homes, stood accused of academic misconduct for not properly identifying people involved in his research. Details of IU’s investigation into Wang are beginning to emerge. Information about the FBI searches are not.

IU fired Wang March 28 without following standard process, the same day the FBI searched his homes in Carmel and Bloomington.

IU professor Xiaofeng Wang and his wife, IU Libraries analyst Nianli Ma, are safe, have not been arrested and face no pending criminal charges, their lawyers told the Indiana Daily Student in a statement Wednesday.

A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.

Neither Prof. XiaoFeng Wang nor his wife Nianli Ma has been heard from publicly since last Friday’s raids at their homes in Bloomington and Carmel.

I wanted to provide a quick update on the case of Professor Xiaofeng Wang at Indiana University. For overview details, see the posts below. The latest is the IU chapter of a faculty organization (the American Association of University Professors) has sent a letter to the university challenging Professor Wang’s termination.