Branden Allen
Specialist Faculty (Professor), Program Lead Space Sciences And Engineering at University of Hawaii - College of Engineering
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBranden Allen is an astrophysicist and instrument developer with eight years of focused experience designing, fabricating, and operating X-ray detector systems for spaceflight and high-altitude balloon missions. He helped architect the REXIS instrument on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and led the design and flight of the ProtoEXIST1 and ProtoEXIST2 balloon packages, demonstrating hands-on expertise from microelectronics fabrication to mechanical and electrical integration. Branden combines large-scale data analysis and HPC skills with deep knowledge of CdZnTe detector technology, and he serves on the EuXFEL detector advisory committee. Now leading a new Space Sciences and Engineering program in Hawai‘i, he blends research, academic leadership, and operational experience to expand local capabilities for observatories and future spaceflight opportunities. An uncommon strength is his end-to-end fluency—from lab-scale microfabrication to mission operations and recovery—enabling practical innovation across the full instrument lifecycle.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
English, German, Japanese
Github Skills (7)
decorator5
xml5
console4
csharp3
javascript3
typescript3
json3
Github contributions (5)
spacequal/json-xml-argparse
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 9 months
consolexmljavascriptdecoratorprototype
spacequal/g4_cross_sections
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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