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Here he is, the one and only winner of the Gemini Croquet Contest! This boy is fueled like fire, so start melting ladies ’cause the boy is hotter than hot, he’s hot, hot, hot! The right size, the right build, the right hair. Right on, right on! — Ruby Rhod

Ryan Govostes is a sophomore at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute studying computer and cognitive sciences. He is an undergraduate researcher in the CogWorks Laboratories under Wayne Gray, Hansjörg Neth, and Vladislav Veksler; Ryan’s current research can be found on his profile page.

Ryan is also the Associate Copy Editor for The Polytechnic, the RPI campus newspaper.

In addition to his academic pursuits, Ryan helped form Alacatia Labs, Inc., a small software company based out of Kyle, TX. He maintains a developer blog on the Labs’ website.

Download Ryan’s resumé.

Contacting the Author

Ryan can be reached at ryan at rgov dot org. If you are at RPI, you can find further contact details on Facebook.

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