Pablo Barceló

Full Professor at Pontifica Universidad Católica, where he is also director of the Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional. PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Until recently, he was deputy director of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), and previously held the same position at the Centro de Investigación de la Web Semántica (CIWS), which later gave rise to what is now the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data. He is the author of more than 70 technical papers and has been part of the program committees of the most important conferences in databases and logic in computer science, such as ACM PODS, SIGMOD, ICDT, LICS, and STACS.

He is currently a member of the editorial board of Logical Methods in Computer Science and will chair the ICDT conference in 2019, in addition to being chair of ACM PODS 2022. He was also editor of the database theory column of SIGMOD Record between 2011 and 2014. His areas of interest are database theory, logic for computer science, and the emerging relationship between these two areas and machine learning.