My name is Elliot Tarbet, I am a computer scientist who loves to learn. My interests mostly lie in Linux, cyber, ctfs, neovim, python, and game/console hacking. I use Arch, Fedora, or Void.

Publications

• 2025 IEEE S&P Oakland
  PyLingual: Toward Perfect Decompilation of Evolving High-Level Languages
  DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/SP61157.2025.00052
  Article: doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SP61157.2025.00052

• blackhat USA 2024
  PyLingual: A Python Decompilation Framework for Evolving Python Versions
  Briefing: PyLingual at blackhat

CTF

• CSG Competitive CTF Team
  Ranked 12th best team in the US (as of Spring 2025)
  CTFtime team link and my profile

• TexSAW Organizer, Speaker, Challenge Author
  TexSAW 25 Admin and Challenge Author. TexSAW 25 organized by the CSG
  TexSAW 22 Speaker

Open Source

My github: github.com/2elli

• PyLingual: Modern CPython Decompiler
  github.com/syssec-utd/pylingual
• xdis contributor
  github.com/rocky/python-xdis
• awesome neovim config
  github.com/2elli/nvim

The Computer Security Group

• Held roles President, Vice-President, Officer, and currently Infrastructure Admin.
• Student organization focused on CTF’s, security practice and education, and research.
  csg.utdallas.edu

University

• Research Student at UTD’s Systems Security Lab
• Current Undergrad at The University of Texas at Dallas : elliot@utdallas.edu