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
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