Leonid Libkin - Wikipedia
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Leonid Libkin | |
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| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania[6] |
| Awards | Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award[1]
Academia Europaea[2]
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| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh École normale supérieure University of Toronto Bell Labs |
| Thesis | Aspects of Partial Information in Databases[6] (1994[6]) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Buneman[6] |
| Website | homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/libkin/ |
Leonid Libkin 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,[4] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,[9] and a member of Academia Europaea.[2] 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]
- 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.
- Leonid Libkin at DBLP Bibliography Server
