Tyler received his B.S degree in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2016. After working on the Silicon Strip Detector upgrade project for the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS detector, he decided to pursue his M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington starting in 2017. His current research at PSyLab is in the development of a side-channel-attack proof cryptography accelerator, and his current interests are in cryptography and Machine Learning. Tyler enjoys hiking, running, cooking, and coding in his free time.