Gee-Kung Chang (small photo) teaches at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Gee-Kung Chang, a Chinese-American professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been charged, along with ZTE USA’s research director Jianjun Yu, with using his position to help a number of Chinese researchers obtain visas for academic exchanges when the researchers were actually working for ZTE USA upon their arrival in the United States. He is charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, among other charges.
Zhang, 73, earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and his doctorate from the University of California, Riverside, and has taught at Georgia Tech for 19 years. He allegedly used his position at Georgia Tech to falsely sponsor Chinese researchers coming to the U.S. so that they could obtain J-1 academic exchange visas, and reported to the State Department that the researchers were working for himself at the institute. But in reality, the fellows came to the United States to New Jersey to work for ZTE USA and Yu Jianjun, now 53, and some were even paid by Georgia Tech while working for ZTE USA’s ZTE Corporation.
It is not known how many of the Chinese in the case entered the U.S. through visa fraud, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Homeland Security Investigations under Immigration and Customs Enforcement are investigating the case. Georgia Tech said in a statement that Jikun Zhang will remain on administrative leave pending the outcome of the judicial decision.
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