Ryan Hughes is an Intermediate-level Systems Engineer at MITRE. At MITRE, Ryan primarily focuses on researching and understanding potential vulnerabilities with regards to the passive exploitation of low-earth orbit commercial satellite systems. Prior to his time at MITRE, he worked as a test engineer for Medtronic’s Surgical Robotics platform and contributed to various research papers, including: exploring autonomous evasion for satellites, as well as small-spacecraft systems to enable multi-conjugate adaptive optics for ground based observatories. Ryan completed his ME in Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University and his BS at University at Buffalo.