SenseTime was founded by an MIT grad and has joint AI research partnership with MIT[0]. It will be interesting what this blacklist means for these kinds of collaborations.
But he’s also part of the controversial “Thousand Talents Program” [0] (link in Chinese) that is being closely watched by the US [1]. Not surprised at all about the blacklist.
[0] https://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-sensetime-announce-effort-adva...