Personal

 

My name is Christopher Donham (that's me pictured to the right). This page has my biographical and contact information.

Contact Information

The best way to contact me is via email to cdonham@engon.org. I typically check my email multiple times during the day as part of other activities. I currently live in Annapolis, MD.

Biography

I began my career as an engineer. In 1995, I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. My thesis involved the design of an analog neural network using full-custom VLSI. I used the neural network to model aspects of the auditory cortex for speech recognition.

After Penn, I spent the next 12 years working for graphics companies in Silicon Valley. Along the way, I built midrange graphics cards for SGI, worked at an amazing startup company called Gigapixel, and spent 5 years designing products for nVidia. Some of the patents I've been a part of include: 6,646,648, 6,980,209, 7,245,302, 7,355,603, 7,417,637, 7,565,490, 7,589,741, 7,697,009, 7,692,654, 7,705,846, 7,808,512, 7,876,332, 7,911,470, 7,996,622, 8,004,522, 8,040,357, 8,098,257, 8,325,203, 8,547,395, and 8,860,722.

In 2007, I left nVidia to pursue a career in teaching. My teaching credential work was done at San Francisco State University, with my student teaching taking place at Lowell High School. In the Spring of 2009, I received my teaching certification in Advanced Mathematics. After teaching in high school for several years, I moved on to community college where I teach or have taught geometry, statistics, calculus, college algebra, and trigonometry.

When I quit engineering, I also decided to pursue a lingering passion: art. I took classes at the Academy of Art in San Francisco where I got the chance to study with Henry Yan. I later moved to Baltimore where I've been studying various forms of drawing and painting including landscapes, figures, and still life with both charcoal and oils.

 

Chris
CraterLake  

A composite of 3 images of Crater Lake in Oregon.