Elliot Tarbet

My name is Elliot Tarbet, I am a computer scientist who loves to learn. My interests mostly lie in Linux, cyber, ctfs, python, and game/console hacking. I use Gentoo, Nix, and FreeBSD.

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

• Game Hacking Village at DEFCON 32 and 33.
  - Volunteer at Game Hacking Village at DEFCON 33. Developed code for the Advanced Modding Workshop with C++, demonstrating Win32 API’s, IMGUI, runtime assembly patching, and signature searching.
  - 3rd place at Game Hacking Community CTF at DEFCON 32.

Open Source

My github: github.com/2elli

• PyLingual: Modern CPython Decompiler
  github.com/syssec-utd/pylingual
• xdis contributor
  github.com/rocky/python-xdis
• my Neovim config
  github.com/2elli/nvim
• Gentoo Guru package maintainer
  python-xdis, autotiling-rs, wifitui

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

• Undergrad at The University of Texas at Dallas
• Previous Undergraduate Researcher at UTD’s Systems Security Lab

Web Ring

• Vivian Bull - Artstation
• Charles Averill - charles.systems
• Nicolas Gaffney - ngaffney.dev
• Chinmay Srivastava - chinmay.systems