[1] He is Professor Emeritus at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) where he was Dean of the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) from 2014 to 2021.
[6] Previously, Larus was an associate professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Computer Science department.
[7][8] Larus graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in applied mathematics.
[12] He is also a co-author of the book Transactional Memory, published in 2007 by Morgan & Claypool.
[14][15] Larus was a Harvard College Scholar, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, and is an ACM Fellow.