Former Intern of ByteDance Accused of Sabotage

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A former ByteDance intern, Keyu Tian, has won a prestigious Best Paper Award at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, despite being dismissed from the company for alleged professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues' work. Tian, currently a master's student in computer science at Peking University, is the first author of one of the two papers recognized at this major AI research event. The incident raises questions about the implications of academic recognition in light of professional ethics and workplace behavior.
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FORMER BYTEDANCE intern who was allegedly dismissed for professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues’ work, was announced as a winner of one of the most prestigious annual awards for AI research this week. Keyu Tian, whose LinkedIn and Google Scholar pages list him as a master’s student in computer science at Peking University, is the first author of one of two papers chosen Tuesday for the main Best Paper Award at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, the largest gathering of machine-learning researchers in the world.
 
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Something to look into, though.
 
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The story reminds me of the Alec Guinness movie The Man in the White Suit where an out of work chemist finds a job working in a texttile lab because he knew how to work an electron microscope. They give him some lab space as a perk and he goes on a spree ordering equipment, blowing up the lab and finally creating an indestructible fabric that repels dirt.

Both the union and management claim him fearful of what his invention will do to their industry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_White_Suit
 
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