Ryan has received three degrees in statistics from the University of Waterloo; BMath 2004, MMath 2006 and PhD 2009. Based on his PhD work, Ryan was awarded the 2011 W.J. Youden Award in Interlaboratory Testing by the American Statistical Association. Ryan’s current research focus is model-based clustering and classification. He received the 2015 Chikio Hayashi Award for Young Researchers given by the International Federation of Classification Societies. Ryan is looking forward to working for and with the SSC.