Legal Docket by CourtListener: USA v. Mingqing Xiao (4:21-cr-40039)
On April 21, 2021, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of Professor Mingqing Xiao, a mathematics professor and researcher at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale (SIUC) with two counts of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement as part of the "China Initiative."
According to publicly available informartion, Dr. Mingqing Xiao was born in the Guangzhou city of China in 1961 and has been a resident of the United States since 1991 and a proud citizen since 2006. He earned an undergraduate degree from Guongdong University of Technology in 1982, a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from Zhongshan University in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Xiao worked as a visiting research professor at the University of California at Davis. Since January 2000, he has served on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, having been granted tenure and promotion in 2002 and promotion to full professor in 2007. Dr. Xiao has also served as a faculty research fellow with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in the summers of 2001 and 2002. His research area is mainly in applied mathematics, such as differential equations and computational science. Dr. Xiao has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and referenced conference publications. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and serves on the editorial boards of many prestigious Mathemathatics -related journals. In 2016, Dr. Xiao was named the SIU College of Science Outstanding Scholar. In 2020, he received the Good Neighbor Award from WSIU Public Broadcasting for his work from 2013 to the present volunteering his Saturday teaching middle and high school students in mathematics enrichment, and coaching the local MathCounts team.
2021/04/26 The Southern: SIUC math professor, researcher indicted in $152,000 grant fraud scheme, DOJ says
2021/04/21 DOJ: Mathematics Professor and University Researcher Indicted for Grant Fraud
According to publicly available informartion, Dr. Mingqing Xiao was born in the Guangzhou city of China in 1961 and has been a resident of the United States since 1991 and a proud citizen since 2006. He earned an undergraduate degree from Guongdong University of Technology in 1982, a Master’s Degree in Mathematics from Zhongshan University in 1989, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Xiao worked as a visiting research professor at the University of California at Davis. Since January 2000, he has served on the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, having been granted tenure and promotion in 2002 and promotion to full professor in 2007. Dr. Xiao has also served as a faculty research fellow with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in the summers of 2001 and 2002. His research area is mainly in applied mathematics, such as differential equations and computational science. Dr. Xiao has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters and referenced conference publications. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and serves on the editorial boards of many prestigious Mathemathatics -related journals. In 2016, Dr. Xiao was named the SIU College of Science Outstanding Scholar. In 2020, he received the Good Neighbor Award from WSIU Public Broadcasting for his work from 2013 to the present volunteering his Saturday teaching middle and high school students in mathematics enrichment, and coaching the local MathCounts team.
2021/04/26 The Southern: SIUC math professor, researcher indicted in $152,000 grant fraud scheme, DOJ says
2021/04/21 DOJ: Mathematics Professor and University Researcher Indicted for Grant Fraud