Justin Woodring

Justin Woodring

PhD Candidate LSU Cybersecurity Lab

Studying quantum threat models and AI agent trust.
Building the orchestration layers that make autonomous software production real.
From photons to syntax.

01. Selected Publications

All research →
  1. 2024

    Enhancing privacy policy comprehension through Privacify: A user-centric approach using advanced language models

    Ali-Gombi, A., Woodring, J., Perez, K.

    Computers & Security, Volume 145, 2024. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2024.103997

  2. 2023

    Improved spectral photometer for undergraduate observations of atmospheric infrared heat flux and greenhouse gas absorption bands

    Blanchard, G. T., Bowlsbey, B. A., Dyess, J. R., Rumsey, R. D., Woodring, J. B.

    American Journal of Physics, 91(9), 708–713, 2023. doi:10.1119/5.0105418

  3. 2025

    QATT&CK: Threat-Intelligence for Understanding the Hybridization of Utility-Scale Quantum Computers Based on ATT&CK

    Woodring, J. et al.

    Q-NET Symposium 2025 — Poster. PDF

02. Selected Projects

All on GitHub →
Distributed Systems / Rust / ONNX

Slatron

Distributed real-time broadcast infrastructure with embedded AI. Rhai scripting, local ONNX-based audio inference, audio ducking, zero-downtime scheduling, multi-arch cross-compilation to a single self-contained binary.

Rust / Tooling

Capibara

Rust-powered toolchain for C codebases: documentation generation, static analysis, IDE integration. Rethinking how low-level infrastructure is documented and maintained.

Local-First AI / Encryption

Lorefire

Local-first AI orchestration pipeline: on-device transcription, LLM-powered semantic analysis, encrypted storage. A study in private, sovereign AI infrastructure where the user controls data and models end-to-end.

Quantum / Pedagogy

Qubit Simulator

Interactive 3D Bloch sphere visualization for quantum state pedagogy. Built to make quantum computing tangible — the kind of tool I wished I'd had when I started.

Electron / TypeScript / React / Rust

AutopilotV

Single-user desktop orchestrator (Electron + TypeScript) that runs two lanes in parallel: PR review in a sandboxed worktree that physically cannot push or call gh, and software development through a full task lifecycle (claim → implement → draft PR → shepherd to ready-to-merge). Pluggable adapters for trackers (Jira, GitHub Projects, Vikunja, Azure DevOps Boards), forges (GitHub, Azure DevOps), and harnesses (Claude, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, pi). The brain is a deterministic poll loop; LLMs are called only for judgment; PR approval and merge are always an explicit human click.

Agent Governance / Rust

aipolctl

Rust implementation of the Policed Agency architecture: a capability-gated policy engine for AI agents, with multi-tier escalation (executor → guardian → human) and an asymmetric communication protocol that prevents the executor from tainting the safety layer. Treats agents like employees, not root users.

No public repo yet

03. Selected Writing

All writing →

I write across five lenses — theory, physics, systems, agents, reflections. The breadth is intentional.

04. Background

Education

  • 2023 — present
    PhD Candidate — Cybersecurity Lab Louisiana State University
  • 2023 — 2025
    MS, Computer Science Louisiana State University
  • 2018 — 2022
    BS, Computer Science Southeastern Louisiana University · Minors in Physics & Mathematics

Community

  • quantumBR — Founder Founded and led Baton Rouge's quantum computing community: meetups, research discussions, industry partnerships. Established a local ecosystem for quantum education and collaboration.

Talks

  • 2025
    QATT&CK Q-NET Symposium 2025 — Poster