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.

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]