Matt McCutchen is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He's interested in a range of topics across programming languages, software engineering, and security with an eye toward the most fundamental problems; his graduate research is on fully integrating structured data into the spreadsheet paradigm to make data-centric applications easier to develop. Relating to security, in addition to his work on SVAuth with Shuo Chen, he has contributed to technologies of interest to him as a hobby, notably Qubes OS and the DANE protocol for DNSSEC-based designation of TLS server certificates.