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Laurence Liang, speaker at CUSEC 2026

Laurence Liang

(He/Him)

Member of Technical Staff @ Rootly (YC S21) AI Labs

Laurence is a member of technical staff at the Rootly (YC S21) AI Labs and is a student researcher at McGill University. Laurence is passionate about the future of AI and robotics, which inspired him to pursue projects with a positive community impact. His recent work includes hosting the HackOS hackathons with a focus on ML research, benchmarking LLMs on coding tasks at Rootly, and contributing to research on safe and robust robots at McGill University.

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Hackathons and Startups: Breaking into CS with an Unconventional Background

Navigating a career in CS with an unconventional background can be challenging. This talk explores how joining and hosting hackathons introduced me to the CS community, and how I got started in the startup ecosystem - with an unconventional path in CS.

CUSEC 2026 was held January 8–10, 2026. The next edition is CUSEC 2027.