Prominent Indiana University Cybersecurity Professor Fired, Homes Raided by FBI

The tenured professor was terminated ‘without due process,’ according to the American Association of University Professors.

The entrance to the campus at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., in a file photo. Shutterstock

A prominent Indiana University cybersecurity professor was fired from his job on the same day the FBI and Department of Homeland Security conducted searches on his homes, according to a letter sent to the school by his union on March 31.

The union said Wang XiaoFeng, a professor at the university’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, was fired on March 28 following a search of two properties associated with him and his wife, Nianli Ma.