Jonathan E. Allen is a senior informatics researcher in the Global Security Computing Applications Division of the Computing Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).  He leads a team focused on modeling and managing biomolecular systems data with applications to pathogen genome characterization and small molecule drug discovery.  He has extensive experience developing new software tools in metagenomics and machine learning for drug discovery, contributing to open source projects such as Livermore Metagenomics Analysis Toolkit (LMAT) and the ATOM Modeling Pipeline (AMPL).  Dr. Allen's recent work has earned him multiple LLNL Director’s Science and Technology’s Excellence in Publication Awards.

Ph.D. Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2006

B.A. Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz 1996

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2022 LLNL Director's Science and Technology, Excellence in Publication

2021 LLNL Director's Science and Technology, Excellence in Publication

2020 LLNL Institutional Impact Award for COVID-19 therapeutic research

2016 Early and Mid-Career Recognition Program

2014 LLNL Gold Award: first transportable automated system for microbial forensic analysis

2009 LLNL Director's Science and Technology, Excellence in Publication