Christopher Allen

Dr. Allen joined the EECS Department at the University of Kansas as an Asst. Professor in August 1994.  He is now a full Professor in the EECS Dept.

Prior to joining the university, Dr. Allen was with the Allied Signal Kansas City Division where he was a Senior Staff Engineer and worked in the areas of high-speed digital design, radar systems analysis, and multi-chip module development. Prior to joining Allied Signal, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he successfully developed data handling systems, timing and control circuitry, direct digital waveform synthesis for advanced radar systems hardware with operating frequencies ranging from 100 MHz to 800 MHz. He also performed radar system design and analysis on a variety of programs.

Dr. Allen held 3 different research positions at KU, first was being the Co-Director of the Lightwave Communication Systems Laboratory, next was being the Director of the Radar Systems and Remote Sensing Laboratory (RSL), and finally he was the Associate Director for Technology; Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS).

Dr. Allen has a publication record of 40 Refereed Journal Papers (in print), 89 Refereed Conference Papers (in print), and 18 US Patents awarded.

55 of Dr. Allen’s projects have been funding with a total funding cost being at $57,775,746.