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Margo Seltzer is a Professor and Co-Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She holds the Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems and the Cheriton Family Chair in Computer Science. Her research focuses on computer systems, including operating systems, databases, data provenance, graph analytics, and interpretable machine learning. She is also involved in educational initiatives and has held leadership roles in academia, including serving as Dean of Computer Science and Engineering at Harvard University.
Education: PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley (1992), AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard (1983). Professional roles include Chief Technology Officer at Sleepycat Software and architect at Oracle Corporation. She has received prestigious awards such as the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, Killam Teaching Prize, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
Research Interests: Systems, databases, transaction processing, provenance capture, healthcare informatics, and cybersecurity. Her work emphasizes practical applications of systems research, including optimizing storage, improving operating system performance, and enhancing data security. She has contributed to open-source projects like Berkeley DB and CamFlow provenance system.
Key Contributions: Developed systems for provenance-aware storage, sparse decision trees (e.g., GOSDT), and intrusion detection (FRAPpucino). She advocates for reproducible research through tools like Encapsulator and Rclean. Her teaching and mentorship have influenced countless students and junior faculty in computer science.
Awards: ACM Athena Lecturer (2023), SIGMOD Systems Award (2020), USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (2019), and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021). Her work bridges theoretical computer science with real-world applications, emphasizing both technical innovation and societal impact.
