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Ryan leads the HPC Security and Information Engineering Group at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). His group is responsible for delivering highly-scalable and reliable security services and telemetry platforms to the high-performance computing resources and staff at the OLCF. He holds a MS in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee. He has taught several computer architecture, hardware, and systems administration courses at Tennessee Tech and Pellissippi State Community College and has held the GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester certification (GXPN). Ryan is currently pursuing a PhD in Engineering from Tennessee Tech University and is focusing on the challenges overlapping both HPC and Security disciplines.