Former Google software engineer Linwei Ding was convicted by a federal jury in ?San Francisco on Thursday of stealing AI trade secrets ?from the U.S. tech giant to benefit ?two Chinese companies he was secretly working ?for, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. Ding, a 38-year-old Chinese national, was found guilty after an 11-day trial of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets for stealing thousands of pages of confidential information. Each ?economic espionage charge carries a maximum 15-year prison ?term and $5 million fine, while each trade secrets charge carries a…