Allen Clement's research interests include Fault tolerance, security, distributed systems, cluster services, Internet- and large-scale services, and game theory. He received his AB in Computer Science from Princeton University. Following graduation he was an International Fellow at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore and spent one year at The University of British Columbia. He is currently a graduate student in the Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research at the University of Texas at Austin working under the supervision of Lorenzo Alvisi and Mike Dahlin. As a graduate student he has published over one dozen papers including two award papers at SOSP.

Graduation is impending and he is currently looking for academic and industrial research positions.