The Grainger College of Engineering
Electrical & Computer Engineering

Donna Brown

Donna Brown
Donna Brown
Associate Professor Emerita
(217) 244-0581
2054 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg

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Education

  • PhD Computer Science Mass. Inst. of Technology 1978

Research Interests

  • Asynchronous learning technologies and environments; WWW-based education; VLSI placement and routing; parallel and distributed algorithms and architectures; analysis and design of algorithms, with a particular interest in approximation algorithms; graph theory.

Research Areas

  • Algorithms and computational complexity
  • Computer aided design
  • Distributed algorithms
  • Logic design and VLSI

Honors

  • Outstanding Young Woman of America, 1984

Teaching Honors

  • 1999 Campus Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Instruction Using Educational Technologies
  • College of Engineering 1996 Advisor's List for advising excellence
  • College of Engineering 1993 Advisor's List for advising excellence

Research Honors

  • Outstanding Young Woman of America, 1984