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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)