is an Associate Professor in the University of Utah School of Computing. His interests span operating systems, storage systems, distributed systems, and computer architecture, with an emphasis on fast, efficient systems for emerging systems hardware. Ryan was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the databases group at Microsoft Research, and earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University working as a part of the RAMCloud and the Secure Computer Systems labs. He is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, an NSF CAREER Award (2018), and the VMware Early Career Faculty Award (2019).