Christopher G. Brinton, PhD

For an exhaustive list, see my CV.

Recent Awards

• Intel Rising Star Faculty Award (2022): One of 15 recipients of Intel's 2022 Rising Star Faculty Award.
• Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) (2022): Recipient of the 2022 DARPA YFA program.
• National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) (2022): Recipient of a 2022 NSF CAREER award.
• Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award (2022): Awardee of the 2022 ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP).
• Purdue College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award for Online Education (2022): Awarded to one faculty member in Purdue CoE each year.
• Distinguished Member of the INFOCOM TPC (2019-2022): Awarded for producing high quality reviews of papers submitted to INFOCOM.
• Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award in Purdue ECE (2020): Awarded to one faculty in ECE each year.
• Purdue ECE Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award (2020): Awarded to one faculty in each Purdue engineering school each year.
• Purdue Seed for Success Award (2019): Awarded for efforts in obtaining an external sponsored research award of $1 million or more.
• Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching (2019): Awarded for high student evaluations received in the spring 2019 semester.

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).