https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Li

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz-ccN9Zkmg

https://gmachine1729.livejournal.com/145256.html

The guy went to America for PhD in 1981 and naturalized as US citizen. But the company his two students founded in Beijing (he is on its Board of Directors too and seems to have helped them get American venture funding) does fingerprint recognition for the Ministry of Public Security. According to the company website, https://fingerid.ai/about-us

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  Established a fingerprint center with a ministry of police affairs, and the system was deployed on Golden Shield Net, providing service nationwide.
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