Monica Lam, Ph.D.
Founder and Chief Scientist

Monica Lam is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, joining the faculty in 1988. Her research passion is in making computing and programming easier. She co-authored the latest edition of the Dragon book, and is one of the top-50 most cited computer science researchers in the world. She helped found Tensilica, a leading configurable processor core company, on her last sabbatical in 1998. She holds a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's in computer science from the University of British Columbia. She is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).