A former Georgia Tech professor honored for his work by President George W. Bush has been sentenced to home confinement and ordered to pay restitution for his role in a scheme to defraud the National Science Foundation, the U.S. attorney in Atlanta announced Tuesday.

Maysam Ghovanloo. Maysam Ghovanloo.

Maysam Ghovanloo, 46, of Atlanta—who resigned as a tenured professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering last June—will serve eight months of home confinement and pay $40,000 in restitution after pleading guilty in August to wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak said.

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