Christopher G. Brinton, PhD

For an exhaustive list, see my CV.

Recent Awards

• 2020 Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award in Purdue ECE (Jul 2020): Awarded to one faculty in ECE each year.
• 2020 Purdue ECE Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (Feb 2020): Awarded to one faculty in each Purdue engineering school each year.
• Purdue Seed for Success Award (Oct 2019): Awarded for efforts in obtaining an external sponsored research award of $1 million or more.
• Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching (Aug 2019): Awarded for high student evaluations received in the spring 2019 semester.
• Distinguished Member of the INFOCOM TPC (Feb 2019): Awarded for producing high quality reviews of papers submitted to INFOCOM 2019.
• INFOCOM Best-in-Session Presentation Award (Apr 2018, Apr 2016): Awarded for having the highest rated presentation in my sessions at INFOCOM.
• 2016 Bede Liu Best Dissertation Award in Electrical Engineering (May 2016): Awarded to one graduating PhD student in the EE Department each year.

Media Coverage

• The Power of Networks has been covered in venues including TIME, Daily Mail, and Times Higher Education.
• Zoomi technology has been featured in several venues, such as CLO Magazine (May 2016), TechTarget (Aug 2016), and News Wire (Nov 2016).
• One of our papers on Social Learning Networks (SLN) was featured in various news stories, including MIT Technology Review, Education News, and Wall Street Journal (Jan 2014).
• I was interviewed for a How Stuff Works article on the topic of MOOCs (June 2013).