 in Applied Mathematics from Harvard/Radcliffe College, and in 1992, her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where her dissertation, "File System Performance and Transaction Support", was supervised by 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.Seltzer became an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard in 1992 and an Associate Professor in 1997, and was named Gordon McKay Professor in 2000; in 2004 she became the Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science.