XiaoFeng Wang's research at Indiana University focused on security and privacy issues in mobile and cloud computing, and privacy issues in human genomic data.

Stanford University cybersecurity scholar Riana Pfefferkorn filed a motion Tuesday to unseal the warrants used to execute searches of IU professor Xiaofeng Wang and Nianli Ma’s homes last week. She filed the motion in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

Ex-IU professor XiaoFeng Wang and his wife, Nianli Ma, are not arrested despite an FBI probe; his termination linked to a job acceptance in Singapore and alleged policy violations.