University of Florida Places Professor Tao Li on Leave Amid Investigation

Disappointing that ACM (and IEEE presumably) shut down the initial investigation [1] after finding no "tangible evidence of wrongdoing" and dismissing "rumors shared by anonymous sources" and only opened it again [2] in the face of extraordinary and overwhelming specific evidence [3] that was impossible to ignore.

[1]: https://www.sigarch.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/JIC-Publi...

[2]: https://www.sigarch.org/questions-about-policies-processes-i...

[3]: https://huixiangvoice.medium.com

> Before Chen’s suicide, the union received at least three complaints each month from graduate students about mental health distress or abusive behavior from faculty – the majority of which came from students in the College of Engineering

Unfortunately this is unsurprising. Conventional wisdom is that most graduate students have symptoms of clinical depression. It is a serious problem at multiple institutions.

Poor, neglectful, and/or abusive advising are also much more common than they should be, and students have little recourse.

(What did surprise me however is the academic misconduct angle; that was something I really didn't expect from SIGARCH. I used to think of ISCA as one of ACM's [and IEEE's] top conferences, so it's disappointing to see this sort of corruption in the review process.)