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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Former University of Arkansas Professor Jailed for Lying to Federal Agents About Patents in China

Monday, July 18, 2022

Categories: ASCF News Emerging Threats

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Source: https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-university-of-arkansas-professor-jailed-for-lying-to-federal-agents-about-patents-in-china_4540274.html

The U.S. Department of Justice seal on the stage at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, on Dec. 5, 2019. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

A former professor at the University of Arkansas was sentenced on June 16 to a year and a day in prison followed by one year of supervised release on one count of providing a false statement to the FBI regarding the existence of patents for his inventions in China, according to the Department of Justice.

Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 64, of Fayetteville, filed 24 patents that bear Ang’s name or Chinese birth name in the country, according to court documents. However, he did not disclose his Chinese patents to the university, where he worked as a professor.

University authorities required individuals like Ang to promptly furnish “full and complete” disclosures of inventions. According to an internal policy, the school, not individual inventors, would own all inventions created by those subject to the policy.

This policy was established “in furtherance of the commitment of the university to the widest possible distribution of the benefits of university research, the protection of inventions resulting from such research, and the development of inventions for the public good.”

More than that, Ang lied about his involvement in the inventions when an FBI agent interviewed him surrounding the subject, the DOJ said. He denied being listed as the inventor of patents in China, though he knew he was, according to the DOJ.

Additionally, Ang received numerous talent awards from the Chinese regime, which he did not list on the university’s annual conflict of interest disclosure forms.

Beijing has launched a massive Recruitment Program of Global Experts, also known as the Thousand Talents Program, a controversial state-backed hiring scheme since 2008 to transfer Western research and technology to the communist regime.

Public data show the sweeping, ambitious plans have siphoned off prominent scholars and experts with hefty compensation globally, especially from the United States, the world’s largest economy. Their fields of study include biomedical engineering, advanced manufacturing, aerospace engineering, and new materials.

In one case, chemist Xiaorong You, also known as Shannon You, on May 9 received a sentence of 14 years in prison for a scheme to steal trade secrets, engage in economic espionage, and commit fraud. The 59-year-old of Chinese descent was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay a $200,000 fine.

Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen of the DOJ’s National Security Division described the sentence as signaling the seriousness of You’s offense, as well as the DOJ’s commitment to protect U.S. security by “investigating and prosecuting those who steal U.S. companies’ intellectual property.”

In another case, senior NASA scientist Meyya Meyyappan was sentenced to 30 days in prison as well as a fine of $100,000 in June 2021 for making false statements to the NASA Office of Inspector General, the FBI, and the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, according to the DOJ.

The expert, who held a trusted position and had access to sensitive and confidential U.S. government technologies and intellectual property at NASA, concealed his participation in a Chinese recruitment plan.

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