Claire Le Goues
Associate Professor, Software and Societal Systems Department
Claire Le Goues is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, primarily affiliated with the Software and Societal Systems Department. Le Goues’ research interests span software engineering and programming languages, and especially in how to construct, maintain, evolve, improve/debug, and assure high-quality software systems. Her group of brilliant students and collaborators is called squaresLab. She teaches software engineering and program analysis at the undergraduate, masters, and Ph.D. levels and co-direct the REUSE@CMU summer program.
Education
2013 Ph.D., Philosophy in Computer Science, University of Virginia
2009 M.S., Computer Science, University of Virginia
2006 B.A., Computer Science, Harvard University
Media mentions
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab awards 2026 seed funding
This year, CyLab awarded nearly $500,000 in seed funding to 10 research projects featuring CMU students, faculty, and staff PIs representing nine departments at the university.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab faculty, students present research and organize events at NDSS Symposium 2026
Carnegie Mellon faculty and students will present on a wide range of topics at the 33rd Annual Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium. Held at Wyndham San Diego Bayside from February 23rd through the 27th, the event fosters information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Third round of Future Enterprise Security Initiative funded projects announced
CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security Initiative has announced its third round of funded proposals.
CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
CyLab awards 2024 seed funding
This year, CyLab has awarded $400K in seed funding to 17 CMU students, faculty, and staff members representing five departments at the university.