Biography

Laurie Williams is a Goodnight Distinguished University Professor in the Computer Science Department of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU). Laurie is a co-director of the NCSU Secure Computing Institute and the NCSU Science of Security Lablet. Laurie's research focuses on software security; agile software development practices and processes, particularly continuous deployment; and software reliability, software testing and analysis. Laurie has more than 260 refereed publications.

Office Hours:  Monday 4:00 - 4:30 (in person, EB2 Room 2240); Monday 5:00 - 5:30 (virtual) 

Research Areas

  • Cyber Security
  • Information and Knowledge Management
  • Software Engineering and Programming Languages

CSC Spring Courses

  • CSC 415-001 LEC SW Security   MW 11:45am-1:00pm   Room: 2201 Engineering Building 3

  • CSC 515-001 LEC Software Security   MW 8:30am-9:45am   Room: 2207 Engineering Building 3

  • CSC 515-601 LEC Software Security      Room: Distance Education - Online

  • CSC 801-003 PRB Sem Computer Sci - Academic Vibrancy   W 3:00pm-3:50pm   Room: 1228 Engineering Building 2

Awards

  • IEEE Fellow - 2018
  • Carol Miller Graduate Lecturer Award - 2017
  • NCSU Research Leadership Academy, 2016
  • 2015-2016 NCSU Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award
  • IEEE Senior Member - 2015
  • NC State Faculty Scholar - 2013
  • IBM Faculty Award - 2012
  • ACM Distinguished Scientist - 2011
  • IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Faculty Award - 2011
  • IBM Faculty Award - 2010
  • ACM SIGSOFT Influential Educator Award - 2009
  • IEEE Software 25th Anniversary "Top Picks” for full-length, peer-reviewed articles - 2009
  • IEEE Software 25th Anniversary “Most Cited Articles” - 2009
  • IBM Faculty Award - 2008
  • IBM Jazz Innovation Award - 2007
  • Best Paper Award, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) - 2007
  • NC State Academy of Outstanding Teaching inductee - 2006
  • National Science Foundation Faculty Early CAREER Award - 2004
  • IBM University Partnership Award - 2003
  • IBM Eclipse Innovation Award - 2002