Dr. Jeffrey Mark Siskind - a Purdue University ECE professor who had substantial research in Computer Vision - was in the Epstein files.

This is not trivial: Dr. Siskind was sent a physical object by Epstein back in 2002.

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00217483.pdf

Siskind still has tenure at Purdue, and there's a substantial Computer Vision group there; most of the group is led by Charles Bouman (the father of the now-famous Katie Bouman, who is responsible for taking pictures of black holes). If you interacted with students who came from there before the Epstein files dropped, they would openly say that Siskind was around the lab, and he collaborated with Bouman quite a bit.

It is reasonable to assert that Epstein and his assets had control over the Computer Vision lab at Purdue, and determined which students could and could not graduate. This alone is not particularly surprising - although it paints a significant picture of a very shitty academia, it is not overtly dangerous in and of itself, and there's probably hundreds of examples of this.

What *is* dangerous is that a very large number of the people who graduated from this program now work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is very famous for "having the nuke shit." Epstein had at least some degree of control over what scientists got access to nuclear facilities in the US, and *that* is a very dangerous thing.