Bryan is a graph theorist with a long history at University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). His research interests involve graph labeling problems, many of which have a wide variety of applications, including scheduling tournaments. He earned is undergraduate degrees in mathematics and secondary teaching at UMD, taught high school in the area for a handful of years, and then returned to UMD for a master's in mathematics. After that, he returned to teaching high school for a few years before going to Michigan Technological University for his PhD which he earned in 2017. 

Since 2018, he has had the honor of working alongside professors that revealed the beauty of mathematics to him long ago. Bryan also serves as the registrar for the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, a non-profit that supports the combinatorics community.