Marcelo Arenas

Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, PhD in Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada. He was director of Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data IMFD) until 2023 and, previously, was also director of the Semantic Web Research Center (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 doctoral thesis "Design Principles for XML Data." In addition, in 2016, he received the Ten-Year Award from the Semantic Web Scientific Association for the article "Semantics and Complexity on SPAQRL." He has received nine awards for best research paper 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 a member of various editorial and program committees, and chaired the academic committees of ICDT 2015, ISWC 2015, and PODS 2018. He was a guest expert on the World Wide Web Consortium working group responsible for 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 areas of research are data management, logical applications in computer science, and the semantic web.