Christopher Brinton, Elmore Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society (ComSoc) has selected Christoper Brinton, Elmore Rising Star Professor from Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Engineering, as a 2024-25 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. Brinton will join a cohort of esteemed scholars to share their research discoveries with a broad engineering audience of IEEE members.

Brinton’s 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. As a distinguished lecturer, he will be able to travel globally and speak on his areas of expertise. Brinton’s tentative lecture topics are “Federated Learning in Heterogeneous Networks,” “Optimizing Intelligence Models over Fog Networks,” and “Integrating Communication System Design with AI/ML,” each research topic he has worked on over the past several years.

“I am thrilled to have been selected as an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. I believe that the topics I will be lecturing on – at the intersection of communication systems and machine learning – will have profound impacts on society in the coming years,” says Brinton. “Teaching is one of the main reasons I wanted to become a professor, and this will give me the opportunity to teach others about consequential advances in my area of research.”

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.E