She is Goodnight Distinguished University Professor in Security Sciences in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, and a co-director of the North Carolina Secure Computing Institute.
[1] Williams graduated from Lehigh University in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering.
[3] With Robert R. Kessler, Williams is the author of the book Pair Programming Illuminated (Addison-Wesley, 2002).
[4] With Michele Marchesi, Giancarlo Succi, and James Donovan Wells, she is an author of Extreme Programming Perspectives (Addison-Wesley, 2003).
[6] In 2018, Williams was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to reliable and secure software engineering".