Since 2023 he has been a distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers University, where he chaired the Department of Computer Science from 2006 until 2009.

Allender went to High School in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1979 with a double major in Computer Science and Theater.

[2] After graduation, he became a professor at Rutgers University, where he stayed for the remainder of his career.

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