Mingqing Xiao
BENTON – Mathematics professor Mingqing Xiao of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale concealed his Chinese research while winning an American grant, grand jurors alleged in U.S. district court on April 21.
They indicted him on charges of wire fraud and making a false statement.
Xiao, age 59, resides in Makanda.
The university hired him in 2000.
Grand jurors found his research included partial differential equations, control theory, optimization theory, dynamical systems and computational science.
Xiao is alleged to have received about $180,000 from Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province in 2017, to run from 2018 to 2022.
According to the indictment, he renewed a contract for a monthly salary with Shenzhen University of the same province in April 2018, to run to 2023.
Southern Illinois Professor Charged With Concealing China Ties
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A mathematics professor at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has been indicted on two counts of wire fraud and one count of making false statements for allegedly failing to disclose Chinese grant funding and his affiliation with a Chinese university on an application for a $151,099 National Science Foundation grant.
The indictment alleges that the professor, Mingqing Xiao, “knowingly and willfully devised and intended to devise a scheme to defraud NSF, and to obtain money and property from NSF, by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises.”
Court records do not list an attorney for Xiao, who did not return an email seeking comment. His case is one of more than a dozen cases involving university-based researchers accused of concealing Chinese funding sources or affiliations on federal grant applications, visa applications or tax forms.
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More than 500 U.S. scientists are under investigation for being compromised by China and other foreign countries, according to a recent hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
The hearing was focused on protecting the U.S. s biomedical research from foreign entities such as China. While delivering opening remarks, Senator Patty Murray, chair of the committee, spoke about a recent report from the National Institutes of Health and conflicts of interests among 507 NIH grant recipients. It s important that researchers with foreign affiliations and potential conflicts of interest for example, participation in foreign talent programs or commitments to file patents in, or move laboratories to, foreign nations fully disclose those issues when applying for federal grants, Murray said.
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Officials from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Government Accountability Office expressed their concerns during a hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP).
As of April, the NIH has identified more than 500 scientists of concern and has reached out to more than 200 at 90 institutions that receive federal grants, NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Michael Lauer said during the hearing, adding that the workload has strained the agency, which is dealing with a very large number of cases.
Feds Charge Southern Illinois U. Prof with Grant Fraud over Secret Ties to China
23 Apr 2021
A mathematics professor and researcher at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, was indicted this week by a federal grand jury for grant fraud, after allegedly failing to disclose secret support he had received from the Chinese Communist Party and a Chinese university.
Southern Illinois University professor Mingqing Xiao was charged with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement, according to a press release by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
According to court documents, Xiao fraudulently obtained $151,099 in federal grant money from the National Science Foundation (NSF) by concealing support he was receiving from China’s government, and Shenzhen University, a public university in China.