Mark G. Allen

Electrical engineer Mark Allen is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, and the Director of the Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania. Allen's research centers on microfabrication, nanotechnology, and micro electromechanical systems (MEMS). He also leads Penn's Microsensor and Microactuator Research Group.

Allen is a co-founder of CardioMEMS, which developed the first MEMS-based medical device transducer approved by the FDA for permanent human implantation. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering (elected 2023) and the National Academy of Inventors (elected 2017), and a recipient of the IEEE Daniel P. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies (2016). Before joining Penn, he spent 24 years at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he held the rank of Regents' Professor and served as Senior Vice Provost for Research and Innovation.

Education

Allen received a B.S. in Chemistry, B.S.E in Chemical Engineering, and a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He received an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.