Monica S. Lam 

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• How Mobile Disrupts Social As We Know It [video|podcast]
  Monica S. Lam
  Entrepreneurship Thought Leadership Lecture, Stanford University, April 17, 2013.
  A previous version of this talk was given as a Keynote Address, 2013 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, March 22 2013, Santa Monica, CA
  
  

Research Interests

Current Research Projects

Previous Research Projects

Biography

She is a co-author of the book Compilers, Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition), also known as the Dragon book. She and her students started Mobisocial Inc. in 2012 whose goal is to create an open social internet, where users can share anything while owning their data.

Monica is an ACM Fellow. She received an NSF Young Investigator award in 1992, the ACM Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation Paper Award in 2001, an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award in 2002, and the ACM Programming Language Design and Implementation Best Paper Award in 2004. She was the author of two of the papers in "20 Years of PLDI--a Selection (1979-1999)", and one paper in the "25 Years of the International Symposia on Computer Architecture".

She chaired the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Design and Implementation Conference in 2000, served on the Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems and numerous program committees for conferences on languages and compilers (PLDI, POPL), operating systems (SOSP), and computer architecture (ASPLOS, ISCA).

In the area of mobile and social computing, her group developed Musubi, a message-based mobile social network that delivers both an attractive user experience as well as distributed data ownership. The paper on Musubi is a finalist of Best Student Paper in the WWW 2012 conference.

Her contributions in compiler optimizations include software pipelining, data locality, parallelization. The SUIF compiler infrastructure developed by her research group has been widely used by compiler researchers all around the world.

Her contributions in program analysis for security include tools for automatically detecting cross-site scripting and SQL injection bugs in Java/JSP web applications, which was based on a novel context-sensitive pointer alias analysis. Other contributions include the bddbddb (BDD-based Deductive DataBase) analysis system, the PQL program query language, the Diduce dynamic root-cause analyzer, the Clouseau C++ memory leak detector, and the Cred buffer overrun detector.

Current Students

Ph.D. Graduates

Recent Papers

1. Historical Research Using Email Archives
   Sudheendra Hangal, Vihari Piratla, Chaiyasit Manovit, Peter Chan, Glynn Edwards, Monica S. Lam
   In CHI-2015 Case Studies: ACM Computer Human Interaction
   Seoul, Korea, April 2015.
2. Improving Communication in a Dorm with Interactive Public Displays
   Michael H. Fischer and Monica S. Lam
   In Information Technology and City Life Workshop,
   In conjunction with the 18th ACM CSCW, Vancouver, March 2015.
3. Effect Of Phonemic Cuing On Recall Of Personally Relevant Names Derived From Email
   Allyson C. Rosen, Ankit Mathur, Monica S. Lam, Sudheendra Hangal
   Poster at the 2015 International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting
   Denver, CO, February 2015.
4. SociaLite: An Efficient Graph Query Language Based on Datalog
   Jiwon Seo, Stephen Guo, and Monica S. Lam
   In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 99, February 2015.
5. Personalized Memory Testing for Names Using Email Archives
   Sudheendra Hangal, Allyson C. Rosen, Ankit Mathur, Monica S. Lam
   In BrainKDD: International Workhop on Data Mining for Brain Science, in conjunction with ACM SIGKDD'14, New York City, August 2014.
6. Distributed SociaLite: A Datalog-Based Language for Large-Scale Graph Analysis
   Jiwon Seo, Jongsoo Park, Jaeho Shin, and Monica S. Lam
   In Proceedings of 40th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Hangzhou, China, August 2013.
7. Dispatch: Secure, Resilient Mobile Reporting,
   Kanak Biscuitwala, Willem Bult, Mathias Lécuyer, T.J. Purtell, Madeline K. B. Ross, Augustin Chaintreau, Chris Haseman, Monica S. Lam, Susan E. McGregor,
   In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 Conference, Hong Kong, China, August 2013.
8. Weaving a Safe Web of News,
   Kanak Biscuitwala, Willem Bult, Mathias Lécuyer, T.J. Purtell, Madeline K. B. Ross, Augustin Chaintreau, Chris Haseman, Monica S. Lam, Susan E. McGregor,
   In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Social News on the Web
   Held in conjunction with the 22nd International WWW Conference (WWW2013), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2013.
9. SociaLite: Datalog Extensions for Efficient Social Network Analysis
   Jiwon Seo, Stephen Guo, and Monica S. Lam
   In Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Brisbane, Australia, April 2013.
   
10. Processing Email Archives in Special Collections
    Sudheendra Hangal, Peter Chan, Monica S. Lam, and Jeffrey Heer
    In Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Conference (DH2012),
    Hamburg, Germany, July 2012.
    
11. Musubi: Disintermediated Interactive Social Feeds for Mobile Devices
    Ben Dodson, Ian Vo, T. J. Purtell, Aemon Cannon, and Monica S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the 21st International WWW Conference (WWW2012)
    Lyon, France, April 2012. (Finalist of Best Student Paper).
    
12. Effective Browsing and Serendipitous Discovery with an Experience-Infused Browser
    Sudheendra Hangal, Abhinay Nagpal, and Monica S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
    Lisbon, Portugal, February 2012.
    
13. Friends, Romans, Countrymen: Lend me your URLs.
    Using Social Chatter to Personalize Web Search.
    Abhinay Nagpal, Sudheendra Hangal, Rifat Reza Joyee, and Monica S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
    Seattle WA, February 2012.
    
14. MUSE: Reviving Memories Using Email Archives
    Sudheendra Hangal, Monica S. Lam, and Jeffrey Heer
    In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
    Santa Barbara CA, October 2011.
    
15. Micro-Interactions with NFC-Enabled Mobile Phones
    Ben Dodson and Monica S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE)
    Los Angeles, CA, October 2011.
    
16. An Algorithm and Analysis of Social Topologies from Email and Photo Tags
    T. J. Purtell, Diana MacLean, Seng Keat Teh, Sudheendra Hangal, Monica S. Lam, and Jeffrey Heer
    In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis
    Held in conjunction with the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
    San Diego, CA, August 2011.
    
17. Email Clients as Decentralized Social Apps in Mr. Privacy
    Michael Fischer, T. J. Purtell, and Monica S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the 4th Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs 2011)
    Waterloo ON, Canada, July 2011.
    
18. Groups Without Tears: Mining Social Topologies from Email
    Diana MacLean, Sudheendra Hangal, Seng Keat Teh, Monica S. Lam, and Jeffrey Heer
    In Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Palo Alto, CA, February 2011.
    

Selected Publications (in chronological order)

1. The Collective: A Cache-Based System Management Architecture
   R. Chandra, N. Zeldovich, C. P. Sapuntzakis and M. S. Lam
   In Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, May 2005.
2. The Interactive Performance of SLIM: A Stateless, Thin-Client Architecture
   B. K. Schmidt, M. S. Lam, and J. D. Northcutt
   In Proceedings of the Seventeenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1999.
   Published as Operating Systems Review, 34(5):32-47.

3. Automatic Generation of XSS and SQL Injection Attacks with Goal-Directed Model Checking.
   Martin, Michael C., Lam, M. S.
   In Proceedings of the 17^th USENIX Security Symposium, (San Jose, CA, 30 July-1 August, 2008), pages 31-43.
4. Securing Web Applications Using Static and Dynamic Information Flow Tracking,
   M. S. Lam, M.C. Martin, V. B. Livshits, and J. Whaley,
   In ACM Sigplan 2008 Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation, (Keynote address), January 2008.
5. Finding Application Errors and Security Flaws Using PQL: a Program Query Language.
   Michael Martin, V. Benjamin Livshits, and Monica S. Lam
   In Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA '05), October 2005.
6. Finding Security Vulnerabilities in Java Applications Using Static Analysis
   V. Benjamin Livshits and Monica S. Lam
   In Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2005.
7. Static Detection of Leaks in Polymorphic Containers.
   David Heine and Monica S. Lam
   In Proceeding of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering, (Shanghai, China, 20-28 May, 2006), pages 252-261.
8. Context-Sensitive Program Analysis as Database Queries
   Monica S. Lam, John Whaley, V. Benjamin Livshits, Michael C. Martin, Dzintars Avots, Michael Carbin and Christopher Unkel.
   In Proceedings of the 24th SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, June, 2005. (Invited Tutorial).
9. Cloning-Based Context-Sensitive Pointer Alias Analysis Using Binary Decision Diagrams
   John Whaley and Monica S. Lam
   In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2004 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, June 2004.
   ACM Programming Language Design and Implementation Best Paper Award, 2004.
10. A Practical Flow-Sensitive and Context-Sensitive C and C++ Memory Leak Detector
    D. L. Heine and M. S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, June 2003.
11. Tracking Down Software Bugs Using Automatic Anomaly Detection
    S. Hangal and M. S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2002.(gzip'ed postscript).

12. Blocking and Array Contraction Across Arbitrarily Nested Loops Using Affine Partitioning
    A. W. Lim, S.-W. Liao and M. S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, June 2001.
13. An Affine Partitioning Algorithm to Maximize Parallelism and Minimize Communication
    A. W. Lim, G. I. Cheong and M. S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGARCH International Conference on Supercomputing, June, 1999, pp. 228-237.
14. Maximizing Parallelism and Minimizing Synchronization with Affine Partitions
    A. W. Lim and M. S. Lam
    Parallel Computing, Vol. 24, Issue 3-4, May 1998, Pages 445-475. (PDF)
    (A preliminary version appeared as Maximizing Parallelism and Minimizing Synchronization with Affine Transform, in the Conference Record of the 24th Annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, January, 1997.)
15. Maximizing Multiprocessor Performance with the SUIF Compiler
    M. W. Hall, J. M. Anderson, S. P. Amarasinghe, B. R. Murphy, S.-W. Liao, E. Bugnion and M. S. Lam
    IEEE Computer, December 1996.
    (A special issue on multiprocessors).
16. Detecting Coarse-Grain Parallelism Using an Interprocedural Parallelizing Compiler (PostScript)
    M. W. Hall, S. P. Amarasinghe, B. R. Murphy, S. Liao, and M. S. Lam,
    In Proceedings of Supercomputing '95, December 1995.
17. Global Optimizations for Parallelism and Locality on Scalable Parallel Machines (PostScript)
    J. M. Anderson and M. S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN'93 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, June, 1993.
18. Design and Evaluation of a Compiler Algorithm for Prefetching ( PDF)
    T. C. Mowry, M. S. Lam and A. Gupta
    In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, October, 1992.
19. A Data Locality Optimizing Algorithm
    M. E. Wolf and M. S. Lam
    In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN'91 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, June 1991.
    ACM Most Influential PLDI Paper Award, 2001.
    Included in 20 Years of PLDI (1979-1999): A Selection, 2004. (A retrospective).
20. Software Pipelining: An Effective Scheduling Technique for VLIW Machines.
    M. Lam.
    In Proceedings of the SIGPLAN 88 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, June 1988, pp. 318-328.
    Included in 20 Years of PLDI (1979-1999): A Selection, 2004. (A retrospective).

21. Limits of Control Flow on Parallelism (PostScript)
    M. S. Lam and R. P. Wilson
    In Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, May, 1992.
22. The Cache Performance and Optimizations of Blocked Algorithms
    M. S. Lam, E. E. Rothberg and M. E. Wolf
    In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, April 1991.
23. The Warp Computer: Architecture, Implementation and Performance.
    M. Annaratone, E. Arnould, T. Gross, H. T. Kung, M. Lam, and O. Menzilcioglu
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, December 1987, C-36, 12, pp. 1523-1538.
    (A preliminary version appeared as Warp Architecture and Implementation, which appeared in the Proceedings of the 13^th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture, (Tokyo, Japan, 2-5 June 1986). pp. 346-356.
    Included in 25 Years of the International Symposia on Computer Architecture, 1998.)

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