Leonid Libkin

Leonid Libkin FRSE is a computer scientist who works in data management, in particular in database theory, and in logic in computer science.

Leonid Libkin
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania[1]
AwardsRoyal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award[2]

Academia Europaea[3]
Fellow of the RSE[4]
ACM Fellow[5]

Marie Curie Chair[6]
Scientific career
InstitutionsÉcole normale supérieure
University of Edinburgh
University of Toronto
Bell Labs
ThesisAspects of Partial Information in Databases[1] (1994[1])
Doctoral advisorPeter Buneman[1]
Websitehomepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/libkin/

Libkin is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he is chair of Foundations of Data Management in the School of Informatics,[7] and at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.[8] He previously worked at the University of Toronto, and at Bell Labs.[7]

Libkin is the author of standard textbooks on finite model theory and on data exchange.[9]

He is an ACM Fellow,[5] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[10] and a member of Academia Europaea.[3] He won best paper awards at the Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (ACM PODS) in 1999, 2003, and 2005,[11] at International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) in 2011[12] and at the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Conference in 2014 and 2018.[13]

Books
  • Libkin, Leonid (2004). Elements of Finite Model Theory. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-21202-7.
  • Arenas, Marcelo; Barceló, Pablo; Libkin, Leonid; Murlak, Filip (2014). Foundations of Data Exchange. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107016163.

References
  1. Leonid Libkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "Leonid Libkin". Royal Society. 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  3. "Leonid Libkin". Academia Europaea. 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  4. "2012 Elected Fellows". Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  5. "ACM Fellows". ACM. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  6. "XMLDATA". European Commission. 2007. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  7. "Chair of Foundations of Data Management". The University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  8. "Directory". École normale supérieure, Computer science department. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  9. Leonid Libkin publications indexed by Google Scholar
  10. "Professor Leonid Libkin FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
  11. "PODS Best Paper Awards". Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  12. "ICDT Best Paper Awards". Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  13. "Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize". Retrieved 29 February 2020.


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