He received his BS from Caltech in 2002 and his PhD in experimental particle physics from MIT in 2007. He is co-spokesperson for the ADMX experiment, now a DOE Office of Science "Generation 2" Dark Matter Project. He co-organized the workshop outlined in the proceedings. In addition to axion dark matter, Dr. Rybka played a key role in the development of Cyclotron Radiation Emission Spectroscopy (CRES) and is working actively on the Project 8 experiment to measure the neutrino mass scale.