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Richard Allen

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Interim Vice-Chancellor for Research; Board of Directors at UC Berkeley Skydeck

Berkeley, California, United States

About

Richard Allen is Interim Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science and Director of the Seismology Lab. He additionally works as a Research Scientist at Google. His research focuses on earthquake early warning technology and the study of subduction zones, faults, and plates to understand the processes driving surface deformation.

Experience

  1. University of California, BerkeleyInterim Vice Chancellor for Researchcurrent2026 — present
  2. University of California, BerkeleyDirector, Seismology Labcurrent2011 — presentBerkeley
  3. University of California, BerkeleyProfessor, Dept. Earth & Planetary Sciencecurrent2005 — presentBerkeley
  4. GoogleResearch Scientistcurrent2019 — present
  5. CaltechPostdoctoral Fellow2001

Education

  1. Princeton UniversityPhD, Seismology1995 — 2001
  2. University of CambridgeBA, Natural Sciences1991 — 1994

Skills & more

ResearchScienceTeachingSeismologyFortran

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Colleagues at UC Berkeley Skydeck

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
EECS Professor (Strategy Council) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Alec Opdyke
Business Development Manager at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Aleksander Kuczek
Ambassador, EMEA at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Allen Yang
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Executive Director, FHL Vive Center for Enhanced Reality (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Amy E. Herr, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering; Faculty Director, Bakar BioEnginuity Hub (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Anca Dragan
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences; Director, Interact Lab (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Armando Fox
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (Faculty Advisor) at UC Berkeley Skydeck
Balu Masti
Ambassador, India at UC Berkeley Skydeck

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