Margo Seltzer

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Margo I. Seltzer is a researcher in the area of computer systems. Currently she is a Harvard College Professor (full professor) 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.