Mr. Ryan Wagner is currently a graduate student in the Software Engineering PhD program at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interest is in how self-adaptive systems gracefully degrade as a reaction to security threats. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After MIT, Mr. Wagner was an "ethical hacker,” consulting for financial institutions and government agencies by breaking into their computer systems and networks. Following that, he worked for a federally-funded research and defense center that supports the Department of Defense.