News

I am an intern with the Network Infrastructure group at Google Sunnyvale!

TurboDB was accepted to NSDI 2024!

Welcome!

I am Jennifer Lam, a fourth-year Ph.D. Candidate in the department of Computer Science at Princeton University advised by Professors Wyatt Lloyd and Haonan Lu. I am interested in improving the performance and hardening the correctness of distributed systems.

In a past life, I worked as a Software Engineer at Bloomberg L.P. Before that, I earned my B.Sc. in Computer Science from Columbia University.

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Publications

  • Accelerating Skewed Workloads With Performance Multipliers in the TurboDB Distributed Database
    Jennifer Lam , Jeffrey Helt, Wyatt Lloyd, Haonan Lu
    NSDI 2024: 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
    [pdf][slides][presentation]

  • [Poster] Targeting Skewed Workloads with the Smelter Distributed Database
    Jennifer Lam , Jeffrey Helt, Haonan Lu, Wyatt Lloyd
    OSDI 2023: 17th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
    [abstract] [pdf]

Talks

Accelerating Skewed Workloads With Performance Multipliers in the TurboDB Distributed Database

Awards

  • OSDI 2024 Student Grant Award
  • Princeton University SEAS Travel Grant 2024
  • NSDI 2024 Student Grant Award
  • OSDI 2023 Student Grant Award
  • Columbia University Jee Yin Au Scholar

Academic Service

  • SOSP 2024 External Reviewer
  • OSDI 2024 External Reviewer
  • NSDI 2024 Program Committee: Pre-review Task Force
  • ATC 2024 External Review Committee (ERC)
  • EuroSys 2024 Shadow Program Committee
  • OSDI 2023 External Reviewer
  • OSDI 2021 External Reviewer
  • Princeton Systems Group Lunch Seminar Coordinator (Fall 2021)

Teaching

Service

Princeton University McGraw Teaching Fellow, 2020-present

Courses

  • Distributed Systems (COS 418) Fall 2022, Fall 2019
  • Data Structures (COS 226) Spring 2023
  • Introductory Computer Science (COS 126) Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
  • Columbia University Advanced Programming in C/C++ (COMS W3157) Fall 2014

Leadership

  • Princeton Graduate College Coffee House, Manager
  • Princeton Women in STEM, Executive Leadership Board
  • Columbia University Splash! President (2012-2016)

Contact

Email: jl87 at princeton dot edu