Ryan is a postdoc in the Advanced Modeling Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research is in computational plasma physics, particularly in plasma-based particle acceleration. He contributes to the Beam, pLasma, Accelerator Simulation Toolkit (BLAST), including the exascale electromagnetic particle-in-cell code WarpX, and helps augment the current Berkeley Lab HPC plasma simulation codes with AI/ML. Ryan was awarded his PhD from the University of Michigan in Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Scientific Computing.