Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

Wow. Finally some news about this! Evidence found for everything alleged by the grad student who committed suicide. I hope there are heavy penalities all around, and not just slaps on wrists.https://twitter.com/JBalkind/status/1358855826170023936 …

15 year ACM-wide publishing and service ban for the most serious case.

Do they just ban them without helping the students?? Or do they make sure students have different advisors and so on first?

If the abuser is tenured faculty then he is still going to keep being abusive even if you have taken away one route toward abuse! Not helping students is so dangerous and punishing while not helping students can make an abuser really angry and make him retaliate against them

You make a very good point. However, it's not clear that the ACM can do anything directly for the students, and I wouldn't want the perpetrator to go unpunished. The solution here is that the university department is notified. They are directly responsible for student welfare.

I think what ACM can do, which would in effect achieve several of these other goals, is make the wrong-doers names public. It will allow public pressure on the university and other orgs based on that.

I don't think that is a good idea as a first action, that can lead to even worse retaliation. First step should be getting students set up with confidential advocates so they can determine next steps safely.