Leonid Libkin

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Leonid Libkin
Born (1965-09-28) 28 September 1965 (age 59)
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania [1]
Awards Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award [2]

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

Marie Curie Chair

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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 [1]  (1994 [1] )
Doctoral advisor Peter Buneman [1]
Website homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/libkin/

Leonid Libkin (born September 28, 1965) 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 2 3 4 Leonid Libkin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. "Leonid Libkin". Royal Society. 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Leonid Libkin". Academia Europaea. 2012. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  4. "2012 Elected Fellows". Royal Society of Edinburgh. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  5. 1 2 "ACM Fellows". ACM. Archived from the original on 1 September 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  6. "XMLDATA". European Commission. 2007. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Chair of Foundations of Data Management". The University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  8. Leonid Libkin publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  9. "Professor Leonid Libkin - Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  10. 1 2 "ACM SIGMOD: PODS" . Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  11. 1 2 3 "ICDT Pages" . Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  12. "Ray Reiter Best Paper Prize" . Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  13. "SIGMOD Best Paper Award – SIGMOD Website".
  14. "LICS Archive".