Kenneth Allen, Ph.D., is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). As CTO, Allen provides executive leadership for the Office of the CTO (OCTO) including stewardship of the independent research and development (IRAD) portfolio for GTRI, and serves on the GTRI Executive Council (EC) where he collaborates with other EC members on the development and oversight of GTRI’s technology strategy.

Over his career, Allen has served in a variety of leadership roles within the Advanced Concepts Laboratory (ACL) as a Project Director, Chief Engineer for the Electromagnetics Division, Division Chief for the Signals and Systems Division in an interim capacity, and as a Laboratory Chief Scientist. He also holds an Adjunct Faculty position in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. As part of the Georgia Tech Professional Education program, he is an instructor and course administrator for courses on Electromagnetic Materials and Measurements and Radar Cross Section Reduction. Allen has been the ACL Chief Scientist since 2020 where he has had oversight of the lab discretionary IRAD portfolio, and helped shape the technology vision with the leadership team. As the ACL Chief Scientist, he has served in the OCTO as part of the Chief Scientist Council where he has provided stewardship and technical oversight to the GTRI IRAD portfolio. He has also managed a portfolio of sponsored projects focused on electromagnetic metastructures with applications for advanced apertures, engineered materials, and measurement science for the Department of Defense (DoD) and IC.

Allen holds a doctorate degree in Optical Science and Engineering, a master’s degree in Applied Physics, and a bachelor of science degree in Physics. He has more than 50 publications in electromagnetics spanning RF to EO/IR, and holds patents and patents pending on advanced radome technologies, metasurfaces, and mid-wave infrared focal plane arrays.

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