Christopher G. Brinton (S’08, M’16, SM’20) is the Elmore Rising Star Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue University. His research interest is at the intersection of networking, communications, and machine learning, specifically in fog/edge network intelligence, distributed machine learning, and AI/ML-inspired wireless network optimization. Dr. Brinton is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) YIP Award, Intel Rising Star Faculty Award, and roughly $16M in sponsored research projects as a PI or co-PI. He has also been awarded Purdue College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Awards in Early Career Research, Early Career Teaching, and Online Learning. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and previously was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
Prior to joining Purdue, Dr. Brinton was the Associate Director of the EDGE Lab and a Lecturer of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He also co-founded Zoomi Inc., a big data startup company that has provided learning optimization to more than one million users worldwide and holds US Patents in machine learning for education. His book The Power of Networks: 6 Principles That Connect our Lives and associated Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have reached over 400,000 students. Dr. Brinton received the PhD (with honors) and MS Degrees from Princeton in 2016 and 2013, respectively, both in Electrical Engineering.
Lecture Topics
- Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Networks
- Optimizing Intelligence Models over Fog Networks
- Integrating Communication System Design with AI/ML