By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A chemical engineering professor at the University of Kansas was convicted on Thursday on charges that he concealed work he was doing in China while conducting research that was funded by the U.S. government. A federal jury in Kansas City found Feng “Franklin” Tao guilty of four of the eight counts against him including wire fraud charges in the latest trial to result from a now-ended Trump-era crackdown on Chinese influence within U.S. research. He was one of about two dozen academics charged in the U.S. Department of Justice “China Initiative,” which was launched …