Monica Lam
Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Sequoia Capital Professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Computer Science
Leads the Open Virtual Assistant Lab, building LLM-based conversational agents grounded in knowledge sources.
Monica Lam's lab at Stanford works on large language models, reasoning & agents and affective & health speech. 23 papers since 2023, 1 at top venues, mostly CHI. 5 PhD students. 25 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 6/ year
- at T1 venues
- 4%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 25
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 1
- 8 papers2024 · T1 0
- 5 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models12 papers
- Reasoning & agents3 papers
- open2 papers
- conversational agents1 paper
- Affective & health speech0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Budapest, HungaryAccountable AI with Grounded, Faithful, Consistent, Actionable Rationales: A Case Study in Clinical Trial Matching with VERDICT (opens in a new tab)
- The Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) , San Francisco, USADataSTORM: Deep Research on Large-Scale Databases using Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Storytelling (opens in a new tab)
- The Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) , San Francisco, USASatIR: Scalable High-Recall Constraint-Satisfaction-Based Information Retrieval for Clinical Trials Matching (opens in a new tab)
- J Autism Dev DisordUsing Artificial Intelligence to Support Emotionally Responsive Verbal Communication Among Autistic Workers in a Work Internship Setting (opens in a new tab)
20256 papers
- The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Suzhou, ChinaCHURRO: Making History Readable with an Open-Weight Large Vision-Language Model for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost Historical Text Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Vienna, AustriaControllable and Reliable Knowledge-Intensive and Task-Oriented Conversational Agents with Declarative GenieWorksheets (opens in a new tab)
- The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Suzhou, ChinaDetecting Corpus-Level Knowledge Inconsistencies in Wikipedia with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- CHI (T1)GenieWizard: Multimodal App Feature Discovery with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Vienna, AustriaLEMONADE: A Large Multilingual Expert-Annotated Abstractive Event Dataset for the Real World (opens in a new tab)
- J Autism Dev Disord , Feb 15, doi: 10.1007/s10803-025-06734-xUsing Artificial Intelligence to Improve Empathetic Statements in Autistic Adolescents and Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial (opens in a new tab)
20248 papers
- IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) , Orlando, FL, March 16-21AMMA: Adaptive Multimodal Assistants Through Automated State Tracking and User Model-Directed Guidance Planning (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the North American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) , Mexico City, Mexico, June 16-21Assisting in Writing Wikipedia-like Articles From Scratch with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Miami, Florida, November 12 -16Into the Unknown Unknowns: Engaged Human Learning through Participation in Language Model Agent Conversations (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24) , Honolulu, HI, USA, May 11-16ReactGenie: A Development Framework for Rich Multimodal Interactions Using Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Bangkok, Thailand, August 11-16SPAGHETTI: Open-Domain Question Answering from Heterogeneous Data Sources with Retrieval and Semantic Parsing (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Miami, Florida, November 12 -16SPINACH: SPARQL-Based Information Navigation for Challenging Real-World Questions (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of the North American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) , Mexico City, Mexico, June 16-21SUQL: Conversational Search over Structured and Unstructured Data with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , Miami, Florida, November 12 -16Zero-shot Persuasive Chatbots with LLM-Generated Strategies and Information Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) , Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2-6Contextual Semantic Parsing for Multilingual Task-Oriented Dialogues (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP , Resorts World Convention Centre, Singapore, December 6-10Fine-tuned LLMs Know More, Hallucinate Less with Few-Shot Sequence-to-Sequence Semantic Parsing over Wikidata (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP , Resorts World Convention Centre, Singapore, December 6-10WikiChat: Stopping the Hallucination of Large Language Model Chatbots by Few-Shot Grounding on Wikipedia (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , Toronto, Canada, July 9-14X-RiSAWOZ: High-Quality End-to-End Multilingual Dialogue Datasets and Few-shot Agents (opens in a new tab)
- Proceedings of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) , Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2-6Zero and Few-Shot Localization of Task-Oriented Dialogue Agents with a Distilled Representation (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went25 listed
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