Allen Lee

I am a research software engineering lead at the Center for Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment and the School of Complex Adaptive Systems where I design, build, and sustain production-grade research software, cyberinfrastructure, and science gateways for reproducible, open, and FAIR computational science. I provide technical leadership for computational research initiatives from concept through long-term operations, partnering with faculty, researchers, and external collaborators to build sustainable research software. My work spans software engineering, technical strategy, software architecture, engineering practice, and the recruitment and mentorship of staff and student research software engineers, guided by a commitment to open, transparent, and ethical computational science that serves the common good.

Selected projects include:

• CoMSES Net: A science gateway for developing, documenting, publishing, discovering, and sharing FAIR computational models of social and ecological systems.
• Open Modeling Foundation: A community alliance advancing shared standards, cyberinfrastructure, and best practices for computational modeling.
• Port of Mars: An NSF-supported computational social science experiment developed with ASU's Interplanetary Initiative.
• SKOPE: An NSF-funded platform for discovering, visualizing, and synthesizing environmental data from the recent and deep past.
• The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR): A trusted repository for the long-term preservation and reuse of archaeological data.
• Virtual Commons: An open source platform for collective action experiments and institutional analysis.
• Social-Ecological Systems Library: An open knowledge base of social-ecological and coupled infrastructure systems.

I contribute to the broader research software engineering and open science communities through technical leadership and professional service. I served as Co-chair of the SciCodes Consortium (2024 to 2026), helping advance research software registry and repository practices. I currently serve on the DataCite Services & Technology Steering Group and chair the Open Modeling Foundation Cyberinfrastructure Working Group, where I help shape community infrastructure, technical standards, and open science strategy. I also serve as a Carpentries Instructor and Maintainer, where I help maintain open training materials with an engaged, global Carpentries community to equip researchers with practical computational and data science skills.

My interests include research software engineering, reproducible computational science, science gateways, software sustainability, computational modeling, complex adaptive systems, FAIR digital ecosystems, and building software, teams, and communities that enable open science.