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https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2022-08/cv_ellison-s.pdf

 

Sara Fisher Ellison

Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 phone: 617 253 3821; fax: 617 253 1330; email: sellison@mit.edu

 

Ph.D. students: •Michael Noel, ‘02•Jeffrey Wilder, ’02 •Eric Moos•Edward Cho, ‘07 •Youngjun Jang, ’15 •Stephen Murphy, ’17•Mengxi Wu, ’17 •Hongkai Zhang, ‘17•Patricia Anghel, ’20

 

Selected administrative tasks: •chair of the undergraduate program•undergraduate advisor•coordinator for student exchange program•organizer of industrial organization workshop •organizer of department-wide seminar•member of the space and renovation committee•member of the ad hoc Committee on Sexual Misconduct•member of the ad hoc Committee on Major Choice •member of the MITx Faculty Advisory Committee

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FBI Arrests MIT Professor for Hiding China Links

 

January 17, 2021

 

Editor's Pick, Crime

The FBI arrested a professor at one of America’s top universities for hiding China links over his work for the Chinese communist government.

 

Gang Chen, 56, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was arrested by federal agents and charged with grant fraud on January 14, according to a U.S. Department of Justice statement.

 

The statement said Chen allegedly failed to disclose his work for the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to the U.S. Department of Energy. Chen has been charged with wire fraud, failing to file a foreign bank account report, and making a false statement in a tax return.

 

FBI agent Joseph R. Bonavolonta told reporters that Chen was arrested at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Immediately after we took Chen into custody, we initiated the execution of three search warrants: one at his home and two others at MIT,” Bonavolonta said.

 

“Our investigation found Chen was working with the Chinese communist government in various capacities dating back to 2012, at our country’s expense,” he said. “[We] believe he knowingly and willfully defrauded [the government] out of $19 million in federal grants by exploiting our system to enhance China’s research in nanotechnology,” he said.

 

“In applying for these scarce federal grants, we allege Chen failed to disclose that he was acting as an ‘overseas expert’ on science and technology for the Chinese communist government — after China’s Consulate Office in New York asked him to provide expertise and advice — in exchange for financial compensation and awards,” he added.

 

“Through an extensive document review, we found Chen has accepted approximately $29 million in foreign funding, primarily from entities tied to the Chinese communist government. And through a variety of Chinese talent plans, Chen received at least $355,000 for his services and expertise; money which he never disclosed to MIT or the federal government.”

 

According to charging documents, Chen is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in China. The DOJ statement said thathe serves as director of the MIT Pappalardo Micro/Nano Engineering Laboratory and is the director of the Solid-State Solar Thermal Energy Conversion Center.

 

The DOJ provided details of one email that Chen sent in early 2016 using his MIT e-mail account that allegedly contained his efforts to promote the PRC’s scientific and economic development, including a reference to how scientific innovation was placed at the core of the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.