Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech–Savannah. Dr. Allen is also the Director of the Systems Realization Laboratory at Georgia Tech, www.srl.gatech.edu. Janet Allen's current research interests are design evolution, materials design, and design under uncertainty. She is especially interested in methods with rigorous foundations in mathematics, physics, and computer science. Dr. Allen and her students have published more than 70 refereed journal articles and participated in numerous conferences. Dr. Allen is a Fellow of the ASME and the Chair of the Design Theory and Methodology Technical Committee of the Design Engineering Division of ASME.