Michael Gordon
Cofounder And Chief Research Officier at Aarno Labs
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Gordon is a cybersecurity researcher and entrepreneur with 24 years of experience building program-analysis and instrumentation-driven defenses from application to OS level. As cofounder and Chief Research Officer of Aarno Labs, he has served as PI on multiple DARPA programs and a Phase II SBIR, securing over $20M in DoD funding and transitioning research prototypes into operational cyber tools. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD from MIT and prior roles as postdoc and research scientist—with hands-on product delivery, hiring and leading multidisciplinary teams for government customers. Michael’s expertise spans static analysis, dynamic instrumentation, malware analysis and programming languages, and he has a track record of forming partnerships across MIT, DARPA, Berkeley and leading cybersecurity labs. Notably, he previously founded MIT’s Global Startup Labs and delivered mobile tech incubators in the global south, blending global entrepreneurship with defense-focused R&D.
24 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New BrunswickGithub contributions (5)
MIT-PAC/tc-public
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
MIT-PAC/obj-sens-soot
Sep 2013 - Jun 2016
Contributions:55 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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