Leonid Libkin

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

Leonid Libkin
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[6]
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/

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

• 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.