In one sentence:
I am as comfortable wearing bow ties as I am jumping off docks.
Play my video game Road Blocks and follow me on Twitter.
Software Engineer at Twitter
I am a Software Engineer on the revenue-security at Twitter. I came to Twitter through the acquisition of my previous company, Dasient. Before that, I was a research staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and a Ph.D. student at Harvard University. I earned my B.S. in computer science at George Mason University.
Founder and Director of HellaSec
HellaSec is my part-time consulting gig. I am currently looking for collaborators on a research project. If you like hacking bleeding-edge defensive technology, hit me up.
Other interests
I do lots of things in my spare time: make video games, author excessively thorough responses on Quora, brew beer, rock climb, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, travel, watch my former wrestling coach fight on UFC.
Research
I have an Erdös number of 4.
- Mobile Malware Madness, and How to Cap the Mad Hatters: A Preliminary Look at Mitigating Mobile Malware. Gerry Eisenhaur, Michael N. Gagnon, Tufan Demir, Neil Daswani. Blackhat, Las Vegas 2011.
- Towards Net-centric Cyber Survivability for Ballistic Missile Defense. Michael N. Gagnon, John Truelove, Apu Kapadia, Joshua Haines, and Orton Huang. International Symposium on Architecting Critical Systems (ISARCS) 2010.
- Software Protection through Anti-Debugging. Michael N. Gagnon, Stephen Taylor, Anup K. Ghosh. Security & Privacy, IEEE. Volume 5, Issue 3, May-June 2007 Page(s):82 – 84
- Bouncer: Provably Protecting Servers From High-Density DoS Attacks. Michael N. Gagnon and Stephen Chong, HellaSec, Technical Report 2012.
- Adaptable Platform-Dependent Micro-Benchmarks. (Draft paper available)
- Enabling Browser-Based Cloud Computing for Typical Web Sites. (Draft paper available)