Biography:Leonid Libkin

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Short description: American computer scientist
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
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
École normale supérieure
University of Toronto
Bell Labs
ThesisAspects of Partial Information in Databases[1] (1994[1])
Doctoral advisorPeter Buneman[1]
Websitehomepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/libkin/

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

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

Libkin is the author of standard textbooks on finite model theory and on data exchange.[8]

He is an ACM Fellow,[5] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[9] 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,[10] at International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) in 2011,[11] at the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Conference in 2014 and 2018.,[12] at the ACM SIGMOD Conference (industry track) in 2023,[13] and a test of time award at ICDT in 2023.[11] He was program chair of ICDT in 2005,[11] PODS in 2007[10] and ACM-IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) in 2021.[14]

Books

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Leonid Libkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. "Leonid Libkin". Royal Society. 2017. https://royalsociety.org/people/leonid-libkin-13335/. Retrieved 9 March 2017. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Leonid Libkin". Academia Europaea. 2012. http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Libkin_Leonid. Retrieved 22 February 2016. 
  4. "2012 Elected Fellows". Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2012. https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1023_2012ElectedFellows.html. Retrieved 22 February 2016. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "ACM Fellows". ACM. http://awards.acm.org/fellow/year.cfm. Retrieved 23 February 2016. 
  6. "XMLDATA". European Commission. 2007. http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/84736_en.html. Retrieved 22 February 2016. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 "Chair of Foundations of Data Management". The University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mfourman/blogs/news/2005/12/chair-of-foundations-of-data.html. Retrieved 8 April 2015. 
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  9. "Professor Leonid Libkin FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh" (in en-GB). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/leonid-libkin/. 
  10. 10.0 10.1 "ACM SIGMOD: PODS". https://sigmod.org/pods-home/. Retrieved 2 September 2023. 
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 "ICDT Pages". https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages/. Retrieved 29 February 2020. 
  12. "Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize". http://www.kr.org/index.php?page=prizes. Retrieved 29 February 2020. 
  13. "SIGMOD Best Paper Award – SIGMOD Website". https://sigmod.org/sigmod-awards/sigmod-best-paper-award/. 
  14. "LICS Archive". https://lics.siglog.org/archive/conferences.html. 

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