Laurie Williams is the Goodnight Distinguished University Professor of Security Science in the Computer Science Department of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU).

Laurie is the director of the NSF-supported Secure Software Supply Chain Center (S3C2) and co-director of the NCSU Secure Computing Institute.

Her research focuses on software security, software process, and empirical software engineering.

Laurie is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an NSF CAREER award winner.