Rate My Professor David Allee

David Allee is a professor of electrical engineering and associate director of the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1984, an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1986, a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1990, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in electrical engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1990 to 1991. Allee joined Arizona State University in 1991 as an assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering, advancing to associate professor in 1997 and full professor in 2009. From 2004 to 2016, he directed research and development for backplane electronics at the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University. He has held consulting positions with Intel, Motorola, Philips Semiconductors, Scientific Monitoring, and KnowledgeBridge International, as well as sabbaticals at Intel in 2000 and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in 2013.

Allee's research specializations include flexible electronics, large-area sensing arrays, very low-frequency electric and magnetic field sensors, flexible active matrix backplanes, low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistors, and indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) thin-film transistors. He has co-authored more than 140 archival scientific publications and U.S. patents, with a Google Scholar h-index of 26. Key publications comprise 'Design and Validation of a Very Low-Power Measurement Unit for the Distribution System' in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (2024), 'Planar Near-Field Electric Field Sensor Array Applications Facilitated by Neural Networks' in IEEE Sensors Journal (2021), 'Active Two-Dimensional Electric Field Imaging at Very Low Frequencies' in IEEE Sensors (2017), 'Thin film CdTe based neutron detectors with high thermal neutron efficiency and gamma rejection for security applications' in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (2016), and 'A passive very low frequency electric field imager' in IEEE Sensors (2016). Allee received the College of Engineering Best Teacher Award in 2008, the Young Faculty Teaching Excellence Award for 1994/1995, and consistent Top 5% of Teachers awards. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors, chaired the Flexible Electronics Conference at SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing in 2013, and served as guest editor for special issues of the Journal of Display Technology and Sensors.