Allison M. Marn is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University. She received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2013. After graduating, she spent two years at InterSystems Corporation developing software solutions for technology integration, followed by a year at General Dynamics Mission Systems designing and supporting the firewall for the soldiers’ network in development. Allison earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in 2021 developing interferometric sensing instrumentation for molecular kinetics. She joined Roger Williams University in 2020 as an Instructor while finishing her doctorate and was appointed to Faculty in 2021. Her current research explores optical sensing and imaging methods for biomedical and environmental applications.