Marcelo Arenas

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada. He was director until 2023 of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and, previously, he was also director of the Center for Semantic Web Research (CIWS), which later gave rise to the current IMFD.

He received an IBM Doctoral Fellowship in 2004 and a SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention in 2006 for his PhD thesis "Design Principles for XML Data". In addition, in 2016, he received a Ten-Year Award from the Semantic Web Scientific Association for the paper "Semantics and Complexity on SPAQRL". He has received nine best research paper awards at the PODS 2003, PODS 2005, ISWC 2006, ICDT 2010, ESWC 2011, PODS 2011, WWW 2012, ISWC 2014, and PODS 2019 conferences.

He has been part of several editorial and program committees, and chaired the academic committees of ICDT 2015, ISWC 2015 and PODS 2018. He was part as an invited expert of the World Wide Web Consortium working group in charge of standardizing a language for translation from relational databases to RDF databases. According to Google Scholar, his articles have more than 8,600 citations and his h-index ranking is 46. His research areas are data management, logical applications in computer science and semantic web.