Hello! I’m a PhD student in Computer Science at Princeton University advised by Professor Wyatt Lloyd. My interests are in distributed systems and networking, and my current research focuses on distributed databases.
Before attending Princeton, I completed a master’s at Carnegie Mellon University, where I was fortunate to be co-advised by Professors Srini Seshan and Vyas Sekar. I also spent a few years in industry, and before that, I earned my BA from Amherst College, where I was a member of the Amherst Men’s Swim Team.
News
Winter 2024. I’ll be joining Databricks in April as a SWE working on Delta Live Tables!
Winter 2024. I defended my PhD thesis!
Fall 2023. TurboDB was accepted to NSDI ‘24! Congrats, Jennifer!
Selected Publications
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TurboDB: Conquering Skewed Workloads by Integrating a Single-Machine Database Into a Distributed Database
Jennifer Lam, Jeffrey Helt, Wyatt Lloyd, Haonan Lu
In Proc. 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2024
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C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up
Jeffrey Helt, Abhinav Sharma, Daniel J. Abadi, Wyatt Lloyd, Jose M. Faleiro
In Proc. 49th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 2023
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Morty: Scaling Concurrency Control with Re-Execution
Matthew Burke, Florian Suri-Payer, Jeffrey Helt, Lorenzo Alvisi, Natacha Crooks
In Proc. 18th European Conference on Computer Systems, 2023
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Regular Sequential Serializability and Regular Sequential Consistency
Jeffrey Helt, Matthew Burke, Amit Levy, Wyatt Lloyd
In Proc. 28th ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2021
[paper] [tech report] [slides] [talk]
Teaching
- Instructor for CSC-225: C & Systems Programming. Camden County College, Fall 2022.
- Preceptor for COS 418: Distributed Systems by Wyatt Lloyd. Princeton, Fall 2022.
- Preceptor for COS 316: Principles of Computer System Design by Amit Levy and Wyatt Lloyd. Princeton, Fall 2020.
- Preceptor for COS 418: Distributed Systems by Michael J. Freedman and Wyatt Lloyd. Princeton, Fall 2019.
- Volunteer Teacher for Intro. to Web Development. Code Nation, Fall 2014–Spring 2016.