Professor harassed grad student at international conference: California court
In a recent case, a first-year Ph.D. student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alleged that a professor at the University of California, Berkeley subjected her to unwelcome sexual conduct while they were attending a conference in Singapore.
The professor was a director-at-large for the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH). During its 2012 conference, he went to a bar or a club with a group of graduate students, including Jane Roe, an MIT graduate student who presented a paper.
In 2014, a U.C. Berkeley Ph.D. student made an anonymous complaint, which was reported to the school’s Office for the Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination (OPHD) and to the chair of the professor’s department. The complainant alleged that the professor created a hostile environment within her research group. She briefly mentioned an alleged incident involving an unidentified female MIT graduate student.
In December 2017, Jane Roe filed her own complaint with the OPHD. She alleged that the professor:
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