3024 Eaton Hall
1520 West 15th Street
Lawrence KS 66045-7621
Education:
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1984 (Honors)
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1982
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 1980 (with highest distinction)
Teaching:
Electronic Circuits
High-Speed Digital Circuit Design
Microwave Remote Sensing
Radar Systems
Service:
Associate Director for Technology, CReSIS
Reviewer for various journals (recent examples include)
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Research:
Microwave remote sensing
Radar system design and analysis
Affiliations:
Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS)
Memberships:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Honors:
Phi Kappa Phi
Eta Kappa Nu
Tau Beta Pi
Eta Kappa Nu Harry Talley Excellence in Teaching Award, 1998
Center for Teaching Excellence recognition for classroom excellence, 1998
Miller Award for Research, 1999
Ned N. Fleming Trust Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2001
Miller Scholar for teaching, research, and service, 2001
W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, 2001
John E. Sharp and Winifred E. Sharp Teaching Professorship, School of Engineering, 2002
Bellows Scholar, 2005
Selected Publications:
Allen, C.T., S.N. Mozaffar, and, T.L. Akins, "Suppressing coherent noise in radar applications with long dwell times," IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2(3), pp. 284-286, 2005.
Paden, J.D., C.T. Allen, S. Gogineni, D. Dahl-Jensen, L.B. Larsen, and K.C. Jezek, "Wideband measurements of and ice sheet attenuation and basal scattering," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2(2), pp. 164-168, 2005.
Kondamuri, P.K., C. Allen, D.L. Richards, "Laplacian pdf of DGD time derivative and application to predicting PMD-induced outage rates," Electronics Letters, 40(8), pp. 503-504, 2004.
Allen, C.T., P.K. Kondamuri, D.L. Richards, and D.C. Hague, “Measured temporal and spectral PMD characteristics and their implications for network-level mitigation approaches,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, 21(1), pp. 79-86, 2003.
Patents:
Stump, G.S. and C.T. Allen, "Apparatus and method for horizontal drilling," U.S. Patent 6,886,644, issued May 3, 2005.
Richards, D.L., C.T. Allen, D.C. Hague, “Identifying a polarization-mode dispersion event,” U.S. Patent 6,781,679 issued August 24, 2004.
Pua, H.Y., C. Allen, K. Demarest, R. Hui, K.V. Peddanarappagari, "Method and apparatus to compensate for polarization-mode dispersion," U. S. Patent Number 6,647,176 issued November 11, 2003.
Demarest, K., C. Johnson, C. Allen, R. Hui, B.Zhu, "Method and apparatus for recovering an optical clock signal," U. S. Patent Number 6,542,274 issued April 1, 2003.
Pua, H.Y., C. Allen, K. Demarest, R. Hui, K.V. Peddanarappagari, "Method and apparatus to compensate for polarization-mode dispersion," U. S. Patent Number 6,459,830 issued October 1, 2002.
Stump, G.S., and C.T. Allen, "Apparatus and method for detecting a location and an orientation of an underground boring tool," U. S. Patent Number 6,435,286 issued August 20, 2002.
Stump, G. S., and C.T. Allen, "Apparatus and method for controlling an underground boring tool," U. S. Patent Number 6,161,630 issued December 19, 2000.
Pelz, L. J., Jr., H. Ji, X. Fang, C.T. Allen, K. R. Demarest, V. S. Frost, "Method and apparatus for controlling an optical signal," U. S. Patent Number 5,970,188, issued October 19, 1999.
Stump, G. S. and C. T. Allen, "Apparatus and method for detecting a location and an orientation of an underground boring tool," U. S. Patent Number 5,904,210, issued May 18, 1999.
Stump, G. S., and C. T. Allen, "Apparatus and method for detecting an underground structure," U. S. Patent Number 5,819,859, issued October 13, 1998.
Stump, G. S. and C. T. Allen, "Trenchless underground boring system with boring tool location,"
World Intellectual Property Organization Number WO9725519A1, issued July 17, 1997
Canadian Patent Number CA2241808AA, issued July 17, 1997
U.S. Patent Number US5,720,354, issued February 24, 1998
Australian Patent Number AU1688897A1 issued August 1, 1998
European Patent Number EP873465A1, issued October 28, 1998
Chinese Patent Number . CN1209184A, issued February 24, 1999
Brazilian Patent Number BR9612401A, issued December 28, 1999
Japanese Patent Number JP2000-503088A, issued March 14, 2000
Russian Patent Number 2175368, issued October 27, 2001.
German Patent Mumber DE69620242D issued February 5, 2002
Austrian Patent Number AT215174T issued April 15, 2002.
