Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architecture conferences

Re:Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architectu... by tnecniv on Monday June 08, 2020 @10:03PM (#23462912)

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/

[2] https://twitter.com/VHuixiang/status/1146524212279955458

[3] https://bit.ly/2UsrMsa

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Re:Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architectu... by choppaface on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:53AM (#23464071)

There'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

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Re:Potential organized fraud in ACM/IEEE computer architectu... by throwgeorge on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:09AM (#23464152)

i'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.

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