SIGARCH finds no improper peer-review in events leading up to student's suicide

In June 2019, Huixiang Chen, a PhD candidate at the University of Florida's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science was found hanged from a building on campus. He had killed himself, but prior to doing so, he sent a suicide note to his friends.[1]

The suicide note alleged a series of severe violations of the peer-review process for a paper submitted to and accepted by that year's International Symposium of Computer Architecture (ISCA).

In August, ACM SIGARCH and IEEE TCCA launched an investigation into the allegations.[2]

The investigation recently concluded, with the investigators finding no improper actions taken during the peer-review process.[3]

[1]: https://medium.com/@huixiangvoice/the-hidden-story-behind-the-suicide-phd-candidate-huixiang-chen-236cd39f79d3

[2]: https://www.sigarch.org/other-announcements/sigarch-tcca-statement-on-investigating-reviewing-irregularities/

[3]: https://www.sigarch.org/other-announcements/outcome-of-investigation-on-isca-2019-paper/