Dr. Monica Lam

Biography

Monica Lam is a Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Her current research interests focus on creating effective and reliable AI assistants that enhance the discovery of knowledge. Professor Lam leads the OVAL lab, which has developed a range of open-source large language model-based tools that assist consumers, historians, and journalists. Her work particularly centers on research assistants designed to uncover new insights within biomedicine and other technical domains. She has contributed to the development of a conversational agent that has won the Research Year Award from the Wikimedia Foundation. She pioneered a deep research agent called STORM that has seen usage by millions, as well as an agent framework that produces coherent task-oriented agents without hallucination. An expert in compilers for high-performance machines, Dr. Lam's pioneering work on affine partitioning has provided unifying theories in loop transformations, parallelism, and locality, while her software pipelining algorithms enhance instruction-level parallelism in commercial systems. Her research team also developed the widely adopted research compiler SUIF and she is a co-author of the classic

Research Interests