Timeline of the alleged ISCA 2019 peer-review incident

TL;DR

See these two links on the tragic case of Huixiang Chen: A student committed suicide due to alleged peer-review fraud at ISCA 2019. ACM SIGARCH/ IEEE TCCA ran an "investigation" run by a team with ISCA conflicts-of-interest and found that no fraud occurred. Further evidence was found that showed the student had access to the full un-redacted comments for all papers from ISCA2019 and from HPCA. This is a clear violation of double-blind review. After much feet dragging ACM SIGARCH re-opened the investigation, but it took them over a year and a half to find any wrongdoing. In the meantime ISCA 2020 and ISCA 2021 were unwisely allowed to continue. After two years the ACM finally released the name of the primary perpretrator in ISCA'19 and ASPLOS'17 fraud, but the various collaborators have seemingly escaped justice. Minimal (if any) changes have been made to the peer review process that would prevent this from happening again.

Full Timeline

The lead up to ISCA'19 and the horrific aftermath

The Failed First Investigation

The Release of More Evidence and start of Second Investigation

The Release of the JIC Report


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