Taylor Canann

Dr. Taylor Canann is the Director of the Policy Research Laboratory with the Salem Center in the McCombs School of Business. He is also a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Finance Department at McCombs where he studies cyber policy, the economics of information and cybersecurity, and computational economics. He is also a Distinguished Scholar at the Strauss Center and a Lecturer in both the School of Law and the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM) in McCombs. The current focus of Dr. Canann’s research is at the intersection of game theory and cybersecurity. For example, he studies how policies impact the hacker labor market and how both software user decision making and hacker decision making should impact the optimal vulnerability disclosure policy. Dr. Canann graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics and received a B.S. in both economics and mathematics from Brigham Young University.

Companies

• Clinical Assistant Professor The University of Texas at Austin (2021)
• Director of the Policy Research Laboratory Salem Center for Policy (2021)
• Postdoctoral Fellow in the Salem Center for Policy McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin (2019 — 2021)
• Economics Instructor University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2018 — 2019)
• Adjunct Professor of Economics University of St. Thomas (2018 — 2019)
• Research Assistant The Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2014 — 2019)
• Economics Instructor University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2018 — 2018)
• Economics Instructor University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2017 — 2017)
• Economics Writing Assistant University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2017 — 2017)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2014 — 2019)
• Master's degree University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2014 — 2018)
• Bachelor's Degree Brigham Young University (2007 — 2013)