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The China Initiative (from 13) At MIT, Chen was the Carl Richard Soder-
berg Professor of Power Engineering, and
Last March, several dozen scientists in- he was head of the Department of Mech-
cluding seven Nobel Laureates published anical Engineering from July 23, 2013 to
an open letter supporting Lieber. June 30, 2018.

“Unjust” prosecution Dr. Chen is a naturalized U.S. citizen who
They argued that his prosecution by the next page
government was “unjust” and “misguided”
and will discourage U.S. scientists from
collaborating with scientists in other coun-
tries.

The arrest in January 2021 of Prof. Gang
Chen, 56, a member of the MIT faculty
since 2001, has galvanized the Chinese
academic community.

Grant fraud
Chen was arrested on allegations of fed-
eral grant fraud, similar to allegations in
many of the China Initiative cases. MIT Prof. Gang Chen was arrested last year. He received his doc-
torate in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley. (MIT photo)