Golden is Professor of Computer Science and Associate Director for Cybersecurity at the Center for Computation and Technology at LSU. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Digital Investigation, and Computers and Security (COSE), and the original developer of Scalpel, a popular file carving tool. His research interests are in digital forensics, malware analysis, reverse engineering, and operating systems internals.