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[Dr] Claire Taylor

[Dr] Claire Taylor

Tucson, AZ; Sacramento, CA, USA
claire.g.taylor.1988@gmail.com

Background

About

About

Between more than a decade of professional full stack development, academic publications across several cybersecurity focus areas, experience designing complex systems, and legal training, I deliver the combined expertise and capabilities necessary to architect and build innovative solutions to difficult problems.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Computer Security Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    May, 2013 - Present

    Conducts and compiles interdiciplinary research, develops training and outreach materials, provides instruction to student interns and coworkers, develops scalable infrastructure and software in a variety of paradigms and environments, investigates and coordinates with appropriate departments regarding policy issues, and administered portions of the Cyber Defenders program. Maintainer on the open source MOTH framework. Reports to both internal and external stakeholders and assumes technical leadership in some projects. Part time basis prior to receiving PhD in 2022; full time basis afterwards. National Nuclear Security Administration contractor.

  • Intern, ICS, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    May, 2012 - Aug, 20123 months

    Developed and secured web applications in an agile environment.

  • Research, Teaching Graduate Associate, The University of Arizona

    May, 2015 - Aug, 20227 years 3 months

    Worked on a variety of projects, notably water law research with Robert Glennon, the ANTARES project facilitating image processing on large scale data from the LSST [telescope] with Rick Snodgrass, and reverse engineering practices with Christian Collberg. Assisted teaching computer security and programming language courses.

  • Legal Research Assistant and Webmaster, Taylor & Wiley

    May, 2010 - Aug, 20122 years 3 months

    Conducted legal-technical research to aid attorneys with environmental compliance issues. Built dynamic company webapp in Java EE and MySql on virtual Ubuntu server.

  • Lifeguard, Pool Manager, The City of Sacramento

    May, 2005 - Aug, 20094 years 3 months

    Ensured smooth operation and safety at public swimming pools. Trained and managed pool staff.

Projects Experience

Projects Experience

  • OpineLaw

    Sep, 2023 - Present

    Pre-funding startup building an agentic AI legal research and drafting app.

  • InfraAT

    Dec, 2024 - Present

    Video based social media app based on the AT Protocol. Curates feeds using high level reinforcement learning based on user interactions.

Skills

Skills

  • Programming Languages

    Java

    Python

    Go

    C++

    C

    Obj C

    C#

    Perl

    Scheme

    Swift

    Lua

    JavaScript

    CoffeeScript

    Haskell

    PHP

    Julia

    Ruby

    Groovy

    Kotlin

  • Front End

    HTML

    DOM

    CSS

    SVG

    D3

    Web Assembly

    jQuery

    Ajax

    IndexedDB

    Bootstrap

    React

  • Back End

    Java EE

    ADF

    JSF

    Spring

    Struts

    CGI

    Apache

    Tomcat

    GlassFish

    Weblogic

    Django

    Flask

    nginx

    Gunicorn

    Moth

    jsend

    Rails

    AWS

    Cloudflare

    Daphne

    Uvicorn

  • Database and Persistance

    YAML

    JSON

    XML

    pickle

    zip

    csv

    b64

    SQL

    MySql/Maria and Cluster

    PostgreSQL

    pgvector

    Oracle RDBMS

    ORM

    MongoDB

    Solr

    Elasticsearch

    Vespa

    Redis

    FAISS

    ScaNN

    DiskANN

  • Networking

    Omnet++

    Castalia

    Wireshark

    tcpdump

    GNS3

    N/Zenmap

    telnet

    OSI

    IPv4

    IPv6

    ICMP

    TCP

    UDP

    RSA

    ECC

    AES

    DES

    RPL

    RIP

    OSPF

    ARP

    BGP

    HTTP/S

    WS/S

    TLS

    DNS

    FTP

    SSH

    P2P

    WEP

    WPA

    DHCP

    UPNP

    MD5

    VPN

    SHA-1/2

    ncat

    Bonjour

    ATProtocol

    MCP

  • Compiler and Binary Tools

    LLVM

    Bison

    Flex

    Tigress

    Ida

    Ghidra

    angr

    Binary Ninja

    gdb

    Valgrind

    Detours

    Volatility

    Rose

  • Device and Assembly

    Java ME

    MIPS

    NXC

    Cisco TCS

    Motorola 68k

    Raspberry PI

    Arduino

    x86

    ARM

  • Natural Language Processing

    Stanford CoreNLP

    NLTK

    UDPipe

    TNT

    CONLL

    Apache Lucene

    LangChain

    ChatGPT/OpenAI

    Claude/Anthropic

    Gemini/Google

    Mistral/le Chat

  • Machine Learning

    Huggingface

    Reinforcement Learning

    Multimodal Datasets

    Dataset Generation

    Retrieval/RAG

    pytorch

    Knowledge Graphs

    Agentic AI

    Florence2

    arctic

    CLIP

  • Operating Systems

    Microsoft Windows 3.1-11

    DOS/CMD/PowerShell

    Unix

    Ubuntu

    Fedora

    Kali

    REMnux

    Cent

    Debian

    Linux

    Android

    Ba/Z/sh

    iOS

  • Virtualization

    Docker

    VMWare

    VirtualBox

    Vagrant

    Hyper-V

    CyberVAN

  • Development and Productivity Tools

    Eclipse IDE

    JDeveloper

    Netbeans IDE

    Notepad++

    XCode IDE

    Microsoft Office

    Open Office

    Google Docs

    Adobe Creative Suite

    Autodesk Maya

    Putty

    WinSCP

    CygWin

    vpcs

    Git

    Logism

    LoggerPro

    SVN

    Maven

    Dropbox

    Box

    Metasploit

    syslog-ng

    FFMPEG

    Invoke

    puppet

    Toad

    phpmyadmin

    Tesseract

    latex

    Overleaf

    Jira

    Jupyter

    Confluence

    Bitbucket

    Stripe

    Paypal

    opencode

    Claude Code

    Cursor

  • Architecture and Topics

    Zero Trust

    Provenance/Lineage

    Policy Implementation

    AI/LLM Embracement

    Security First

    Security Convergence

    Critical Infrastructure

    Quality Assurance

    Enterprise

    Observability

    Visualization

  • Law and Policy

    Intellectual Property

    First Amendment/Speech

    Privacy and Identity

    Regulatory Cyberlaw

    NIST Cybersecurity Framework

    Risk Analysis

    International Law

    Law of War/Conflict

    International Relations

    Water Law

    Land Use

    Westlaw

    Lexis

    Bloomberg

    Instututional Review Board

    Compliance

    Civil Rights

    Federal

    Arizona

Education

Education

  • Computer Science, PhD, The University of Arizona

    Aug, 2012 - May, 2022

  • Law, JD, The University of Arizona

    Aug, 2012 - May, 2016

  • Computer Science (Minor in International Relations), BS, California State University, Chico

    Aug, 2007 - May, 2012

Awards

Awards

  • Best Paper Award , MalCon 2019

    Awarded on: Oct 15, 2019

    Received best paper award for "Getting RevEngE: A System for Analyzing Reverse Engineering Behavior"

  • Sol Resnick Fellowship , The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

    Awarded on: Aug 15, 2014

    Fellowship to conduct water law research with Robert Glennon.

  • First Place - Cyberdefenders Cybercraft Capture the Flag , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    Awarded on: Jul 15, 2014

  • Dean's List , The University of Arizona

    Awarded on: Dec 15, 2012

  • Snell and Wilmer Scholarship , The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

    Awarded on: Aug 15, 2012

  • Law College Association Scholarship , The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

    Awarded on: Aug 15, 2012

  • Honors in Computer Science , California State University, Chico

    Awarded on: May 15, 2012

  • Honors in General Education , California State University, Chico

    Awarded on: May 15, 2012

  • Dean's List , California State University, Chico

    Awarded on: May 15, 2012

  • Second Place - California State University, Chico Programming Competition, Upper Division , California State University, Chico

    Awarded on: May 15, 2012

  • Eagle Scout , Boy Scouts of America

    Awarded on: Oct 15, 2005

Volunteer Work

Volunteer Work

  • Founder, Organizer, Tucson Queer Trans Youth Soccer

    May, 2022 - Present

    Organizes free soccer outreach and events for LGBT+ youth who have faced athletic discrimination due to recent legislation.

  • Administrator, Developer, Department of Energy National Science Bowl

    Apr, 2017 - Present

    Developed content and infrastructure and administered the Cyber Challenge.

  • Founding Editor-in-Chief, President of the Founding Committee, Chief Systems Manager, Arizona Law Journal of Emerging Technology

    May, 2016 - May, 2020

    Coordinated with interested students, faculty, and other law journals to create the Arizona Law Journal of Emerging Technology. Proposed and implemented publication software; managed publication software in production.

  • President, Webmaster, Arizona Intellectual Property & Cyberlaw Society

    May, 2012 - May, 2016

    Managed funding, events, outreach, and other academic functions.

  • President, Member, Chico State Java User Group

    May, 2009 - May, 2012

    Showcased contemporary Java language technologies and developments to the group and organized members doing the same.

Publications

Publications

  • reAnalyst: Scalable annotation of reverse engineering activities,

    Published on: May 15, 2025

    Co-author. Article in the Journal of Systems and Software.

  • The Evolution of Volatile Memory Forensics,

    Published on: Aug 20, 2022

    Co-author. Article in the Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy.

  • Remotely Observing Reverse Engineers to Evaluate Software Protection,

    Published on: May 01, 2022

    Author. PhD dissertation.

  • Getting RevEngE: A System for Analyzing Reverse Engineering Behavior,

    Published on: Oct 15, 2019

    First author with Christian Collberg, presenter. Paper and presentation at Malware Conference 2019. Best paper award.

  • Machine-learning-based Brokers for Real-time Classification of the LSST Alert Stream,

    Published on: May 11, 2018

    Co-author with Gautham Narayan et al. Article in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

  • CTF: State-of-the-Art and Building the Next Generation,

    Published on: Oct 01, 2017

    First author with Pablo Arias et al, presenter. Paper and presentation at 2017 USENIX Workshop on Advances in Security Education.

  • Corpus Selection Approaches for Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies,

    Published on: Oct 01, 2017

    Co-author with Ryan Hornby and Jungyeul Park, presenter. Paper and poster presentation at CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies.

  • Desalination vs. Duct Tape: (Dis)Incentives to Securing Water Supplies,

    Published on: Oct 01, 2016

    Co-author with Robert Glennon. Published in American Water Works Association, September 2016.

  • A Tool for Teaching Reverse Engineering,

    Published on: Aug 16, 2016

    First author with Christian Collberg, presenter. Paper and presentation at 2016 USENIX Security Symposium Security in Education Workshop.

  • ANTARES: Progress towards building a ‘Broker’ of time-domain alerts,

    Published on: Jul 18, 2016

    Co-author with Abhijit et al. Paper published in SPIE Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems.

  • Strong Authentication Countermeasures Using Dynamic Keying for Sinkhole And Distance Spoofing Attacks in Smart Grid Networks,

    Published on: Oct 01, 2015

    First author with Thienne Johnson, presenter. Paper and poster presentation at 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference.

Interests

Interests

  • Academic

    intellectual propertycyber securityprivacy lawapplication and software developmentmachine learningnatural language processingobject oriented designobject-persistence mappingmultithreaded and concurrent programmingcomputer securityroboticscomputer networkingalgorithmsdistributed systemssystem architecture and designdatabase management systemsinternational economywater and natural resource law

  • Personal

    travelbass guitarathletics including aquaticssoccerbikingrunningand hikingmetal and wood workinggraphic designphotographygardening and botanyelectrical and mechanical engineeringaudio and acoustic engineeringthe stock market and personal investmentLGBTQ+ community engagement