Yingying Zhang (Chinese: 章莹颖; pinyin: Zhāng Yíngyǐng) is a visiting scholar in the United States from China, who has not been seen since she got into a car at a bus stop on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign campus on June 9, 2017. On June 30, 2017, the FBI arrested and charged Brendt Christensen, a Champaign resident and former physics graduate student at the university, with kidnapping Zhang.[2] Based on evidence uncovered during the investigation, law enforcement officials have said they believe Zhang is no longer alive.[3]