Patrice Godefroid is a Distinguished Engineer at Lacework. He
received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (Computer Science
elective) and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University
of Liege, Belgium, in 1989 and 1994 respectively.  From 1994 to 2006,
he worked at AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories, where he was promoted to
"distinguished member of technical staff" in 2001. From 2006 to 2021,
he worked at Microsoft Research, where he was promoted to Partner
Researcher in 2012. His area of expertise includes software model 
checking, program analysis, testing, verification, security, and 
software engineering.