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John S. Allen III is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Graduate Chair at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's College of Engineering. He holds a PhD from the University of Washington (1997). His research focuses on acoustics, cavitation, fluid-structure interactions, biomedical engineering, biomaterials, and rheology. Allen has made significant contributions to understanding ultrasound contrast agents, bubble dynamics, and their applications in medical imaging and therapy.
Selected honors include being named an Acoustical Society of America Fellow (2017), and fellowships from the Office of Naval Research, DAAD (Germany), and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He has presented at major conferences like the European Symposium on Ultrasound Contrast Agents and the Acoustical Society of America meetings.
Allen teaches ME 311 Thermodynamics and ME 626 Viscous Flows. His work integrates theoretical modeling with experimental validation, particularly in biomedical acoustics and microbubble behavior. Recent research explores noise reduction in underwater acoustics and echolocation analysis in marine mammals.
