Dr. Timothy E. Allen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He received a B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Allen's teaching activities include coordinating the undergraduate teaching labs and the Capstone Design sequence in the BME department at the University of Virginia, and his research interests are in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. He is also interested in evaluating the pedagogical approaches optimal for teaching lab concepts and skills, computational modeling approaches, and professionalism within design classes. Dr. Allen is the PI on a new NSF REU site focused on multi-scale systems bioengineering, a collaboration involving 12 faculty in SEAS, SOM, and CLAS at UVa, as well as four partner institutions in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast. He also coordinates the BME DesignLab along with David Chen (Director, UVa Coulter Translational Partnership).