Egyptian chemist says a 2012 grievance triggered a 14-year retaliation campaign by MIT
A former MIT postdoctoral scholar says the university threatened deportation, falsified his personnel file, and barred him from campus after he complained.
Mohammad Noshi, an Egyptian chemist who worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from October 2009 until what he describes as his constructive discharge in May 2012, has sued his former employer in federal court in Boston. According to the filing in Noshi v. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, No. 1:26-cv-12277, filed May 19, 2026, in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, what began as a workplace grievance has stretched into a fourteen-year fight that, in his telling, MIT has yet to put down.
The story Noshi tells will be familiar in shape, if not in detail, to any HR leader who has watched a misconduct complaint spiral. He says he raised concerns in 2012 about a hostile work environment, forced "ghost research," and exploitation tied to his J-1 visa status. Instead of an investigation, he claims, he got a runaround across departments and a pair of meetings he describes as hostile and intimidating. According to the filing, a human resources official, Robert Muti, told him during a March 30, 2012 meeting, "You are not from this country, and we can deport you if you file a complaint," and warned, "At this point, you should be worried about your safety and that of your family."...
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