Pablo Barceló

Full Professor at Pontifica Universidad Católica, where he is also director of the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering. D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Until recently, he was the alternate director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, and previously held the same position at the Center for Semantic Web Research (CIWS), which later became the current Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data. He is the author of more than 70 technical papers and has served on the program committees of major conferences on databases and logic in computer science, such as ACM PODS, SIGMOD, ICDT, LICS and STACS.

He currently serves on the editorial board of Logical Methods in Computer Science and will be chair of the ICDT conference in 2019, as well as chair at ACM PODS 2022. He was also editor of the database theory column of the SIGMOD Record between 2011 and 2014. His areas of interest are database theory, logic for computer science, and the emerging relationship between the above two areas and machine learning.