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Laurie Williams

  • Goodnight Distinguished University Professor
Website
lauriew.github.io
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Research Areas AI for Security Agentic Systems Security Open Source Security Dependency & Build Security Software Provenance & Transparency Vulnerability Analysis Critical Infrastructure Security Developer-Centered Security

Bio

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 (SCI) and the NCSU Science of Security Lablet. Laurie’s research focuses on software security and secure software supply chain. She is an associate editor-in-chief of the IEEE Security and Privacy magazine. Laurie is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow. Laurie has a BS in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, an MBA from Duke University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Utah.