Margo Seltzer
Margo Ilene Seltzer (b. upstate New York) is a professor and researcher in computer systems. Currently she is the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science and a Harvard College Professor (full professor) in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where she is active in the Systems Research Group.
Dr. Seltzer earned her PhD in 1992 from Berkeley with her dissertation ‘‘File System Performance and Transaction Support,’’ under advisor Michael Stonebraker. Her work in log-structured file systems, databases, and wide-scale caching is especially well-known, and she was lead author of the BSD-LFS paper.
She was CTO of Sleepycat Software (developers of the Berkeley DB embedded database) prior to that firm's acquisition by Oracle in 2006. She continues to serve as an architect on the Oracle Berkeley DB team, and is a director of the USENIX association. In 2011 she was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[1].
