Laurent received a B.S. and an Sc.M. in Computer Science from “Les Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix” (‘93) in Namur, Belgium. He later received an Sc.M. (‘96) and Ph.D. (‘99) degrees in Computer Science from Brown University.

After spending one year in industry and 2 years at Brown University as Visiting Assistant Professor, he joined the department in 2002 as Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and is now a Professor since 2017. He is now the Synchrony Chaired Professor in Cybersecurity. His research interests focus on the design and implementation of domain specific languages for combinatorial optimization, voting security, and system security through optimization. He is co-Director of The Connecticut Advanced Computing Center.

Center for Voting Technology Research (VoTeR)

I serve as a coPI in the VoTeR center since its inception in 2006. We focus on supporting the Secretary of the State’s office in CT.

CACC co-Director

I serve as co-Director (along with Prof. J. Chandy) for the CACC research center. The Connecticut Advanced Computing Center (CACC) leverages the synergies existing in CHEST, CSI, Synchrony and VoTeR to investigate, develop, promote, and nurture the best hardware and software based security practices for indispensable defense and commercial application domains and, in particular, for emerging fields such as mobile device security.

Present

• Teaching buy out in Fall'24

Past

I taught the following classes at UConn

• CSE1729: Introduction to Computing for Majors
• CSE2100: Introduction to Data-structures and algorithms
• CSE3100: System Programming (Fall'15,Fall'17)
• CSE3150: C++ Essentials (Fall'17,Spring'17,Spring'18)
• CSE3160: Functional Programming Essentials (in Haskell)
• CSE4100: Compilers (Fall'15)
• CSE4102: Programming Languages (Spring'17)
• CSE4300: Operating systems
• CSE5095: Discrete Optimization (Spring'16)
• CSE5102: Advanced Programming Language

I also taught CS4 at Brown University together with Nancy Pollard in the Fall of 2000.