Dr. Patrick Lam, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been recognized with the Distinguished Reviewer Award at the IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis & Manipulation (SCAM) 2025, held last week in Auckland.
The aim of SCAM is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the theory, techniques, and applications related to the analysis and manipulation of source code. While much of the broader software engineering community focuses on aspects such as specification, design, and requirements engineering, source code contains the only precise description of a system’s behavior. The analysis and manipulation of source code therefore remains a critical area of research.
In addition to receiving this award, Dr. Lam will serve as a Program Committee Co-Chair for next year’s conference, reflecting his ongoing contributions to the field. His research spans static program analysis, verifiable software specifications, data mining, renewable energy, and software engineering, with a focus on giving developers tools to automatically link high-level designs to low-level implementations through programming language extensions.