A federal jury has convicted a former Google tech engineer of economic espionage and theft of confidential artificial intelligence technology as part of a scheme to benefit China, federal justice officials announced on Thursday. Linwei Ding, 38, who is also known as Leon Ding, was convicted by the jury after an 11-day trial in a federal court in the Bay Area, the U.S. Justice Department office in San Francisco announced Thursday. The jury found Ding guilty on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets. The jury determined Ding stole thousands of pages of confidential…