Christopher G. Brinton

Dr. Christopher G. Brinton is a Co-Founder of Zoomi and the Head of Advanced Research. His PhD thesis on enhancing the quality of student learning won the 2016 Bede Liu Best Dissertation Award in Electrical Engineering, making fundamental contributions to big learning data analytics, social learning networks, and personalized learning. He is a MOOC co-instructor, having reached out to over 250,000 students, and co-author of the book The Power of Networks: Six Principles That Connect our Lives, which has been deployed in Zoomi’s platforms to adapt to individual learners.

Chris received his PhD from Princeton University in May 2016, his Masters from Princeton in May 2013, and his Bachelor of Science from The College of New Jersey (valedictorian and summa cum laude) in May 2011, all in Electrical Engineering.