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Christopher Griffin is a Research Professor at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), where he holds courtesy appointments as Professor of Mathematics, Professor of Operations Research and Professor of Industrial Engineering at Penn State. He was a Eugene Wigner Fellow in the Computational Science and Engineering Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and has also taught in the Mathematics Department at the United States Naval Academy. His favorite part of teaching is connecting complex mathematical concepts to their applications. He finds most students are excited by math when they know how much of our modern world depends on it.

When he is not teaching (which is most of the time), Dr. Griffin's research interests are in applied mathematics, where he focuses on applied dynamical systems (especially on graphs), game theory and optimization. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. He has published over 100 peer reviewed research papers on various forms of applied mathematics. Dr. Griffin uses Wolfram Mathematica for everything, including playing with his daughter, who loves the animations.