Sacked US professor given a year in prison for lying about his China links
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Rebecca Trager2022-06-22T13:30:00
An ex-electrical engineering researcher at the University of Arkansas sentenced for not disclosing the two dozen patents he filed in China
A former tenured electrical engineering professor at the University of Arkansas who was arrested over a year ago for failing to disclose his ties with the Chinese government and Chinese companies has been sentenced to a year in prison for lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about his work on behalf of China. Simon Saw-Teong Ang, who was born in Malaysia and has been a US citizen for decades, had worked at the university for more than 30 years, and was facing up to 20 years in prison. The University of Arkansas fired him shortly after his arrest.