Marcelo Arenas
Full Professor
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Database systems: relational databases, semistructured data, XML, graph databases; Semantic Web; Finite model theory; Formal verification; Knowledge representation
-
Mathematics, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1997
-
Engineering Sciences, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1998
-
Industrial Civil Engineer, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1998
-
Engineering Sciences, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 1998
-
Computer Sciences, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. Chile, 2005
-
Assistant Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Engineering
Chile
2005 - 2009
-
Associate Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Engineering
Chile
2009 - 2017
-
Visiting researcher Full Time
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Reino Unido
2012 - 2013
-
Summer intern Other
IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER
Estados Unidos
2004 - 2004
-
Full Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Engineering
Chile
2017 - A la fecha
-
Invited Expert Other
RDB2RDF Working Group. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Estados Unidos
2009 - 2012
-
Member of the evaluation committee for FONDECYT Other
National Research Council for Science and Technology
Chile
2007 - 2010
-
Member of the Chilean government committee for the development of a National Artificial Intelligence Policy Part Time
Gobierno de Chile
Chile
2019 - A la fecha
-
Member of the OECD Global Science Forum Expert Group on Digital Skills for Data-Intensive Science Part Time
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Chile
2018 - 2020
-
Leader of the Graph Query Languages task force (GraphQL) Part Time
Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC)
Chile
2015 - 2018
Graduated PhD Students
- Martín Ugarte. “Building a Query Language for the Web of Data: Efficiency in an Open World”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, September 2015.
- Jorge Pérez. “Schema Mapping Management in Data Exchange Systems”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, May 2011. Note: This thesis was awarded the Best PhD Thesis Award at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
- Sebástian Castillo. “Blocking Logics: A Class of Paraconsistent Logics, with Applications to the Theory of Computing and Discussion Groups”. Universidad de Chile, November 2007 (co-supervised with Renato Lewin).
Graduated Masters Students
- Pedro Bahamondes. “Temporal Regular Path Queries: Syntax, Semantics, and Complexity”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, July 2021.
- Thomas Reisenegger. “Semantics and Complexity of Bitcoin Script”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, May 2021 (co-supervised with Juan Reutter).
- Luis Alberto Croquevielle. “Efficient Logspace Classes For Enumeration, Counting, And Uniform Generation”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, April 2019.
- Martín Muñoz. “Descriptive Complexity for Counting Complexity Classes”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, December 2017 (co-supervised with Cristian Riveros). Note: This thesis was awarded the Outstanding Master Thesis Award at the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms International Student Awards 2019, Vienna, Austria.
- Gabriel Diéguez. “On the complexity of Bidirectional Constraints for Data Exchange”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, December 2014.
- Gonzalo Díaz. “A Principled Approach to Bridging the Gap between Graph Data and their Schemas”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, September 2013.
- Andrés Letelier. “Optimization of Semantic Web Queries using SPARQL Pettern Trees”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. August 2013.
- Sebastián Conca.“Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL 1.1 Property Paths”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. March 2012.
- Juan Reutter. “Extending Query Languages for Data Exchange”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. March 2009.
- Cristian Riveros. “Recovering Information in Data Exchange”. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. July 2008.
Postdoctoral Scholars Mentored
• Martín Ugarte. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, November 2018 - August 2019.
• Francisco Vial. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, August 2017 - May 2019.
• Domagoj Vrgoc. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, July 2014 - July 2016.
• Carlos Buil-Aranda. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, October 2012 - September 2015.
The problem of managing large volumes of information is of fundamental importance to modern society. In the last few years, we have developed and studied different technologies for storing, publishing, exchanging and querying large volumes of data. In particular, we have developed, studied and implemented general purpose query languages for the Web of data, which allow users to express queries in a simple and declarative way.
-
Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Estados Unidos, 2021
Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), elected in 2021 for outstanding scientific contributions to computing.
-
ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Estados Unidos, 2020
2020 ACM SIGMOD Research Highlight Award for the article “Efficient Logspace Classes for Enumeration, Counting, and Uniform Generation”.
-
Award for being the most inspiring professor
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2020
Award for being the most inspiring professor in the Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
-
Award for being the most inspiring professor
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2017
Award for being the most inspiring professor in the Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
-
2016 Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) Ten-Year Award
Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA)
Estados Unidos, 2016
2016 Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) Ten-Year Award for the article “Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL”, which was published in the International Semantic Web Conference 2006.
-
Award Scopus Chile 2013 in Computer Science
Elsevier
Chile, 2013
Award Scopus Chile 2013 in Computer Science, awarded by Elsevier to researchers with high scientific productivity, with the support of the National Research Council for Science and Technology of Chile (CONICYT).
-
Ramón Salas Edwards Award 2012
INSTITUTO DE INGENIEROS DE CHILE
Chile, 2012
“Ramón Salas Edwards” Award 2012 of the Institute of Engineers of Chile to the best research on engineering in the period 2009 - 2011.
-
Best Paper Award
ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on Principles of Database Systems
Holanda, 2019
Best paper award at the 38th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGAI Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2019), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2019.
-
Google Best Paper Award
21st International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2012)
Francia, 2012
Google Best Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW 2012), Lyon, France, 2012.
-
Best Paper Award
ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2011)
Grecia, 2011
Best paper award at the 30th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2011), Athens, Greece, 2011.
-
Best Paper Award
Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011)
Grecia, 2011
Best paper award at the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), Heraklion, Greece, 2011.
-
Best Paper Award
International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2010)
Suiza, 2010
Best paper award at the 13th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2010), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2010.
-
Best Paper Award
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006)
Estados Unidos, 2006
Best paper award at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006), Athens, GA, USA, 2006.
-
Best Paper Award
ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2005)
Estados Unidos, 2005
Best paper award at the 24th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2005), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2005.
-
Best Paper Award
ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2003)
Estados Unidos, 2003
Best paper award at the 22nd ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2003), San Diego, CA, USA, 2003.
-
SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Estados Unidos, 2006
SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award Honorable Mention for Ph.D dissertation “Design Principles for XML Data”, Chicago, IL, USA, 2006.
-
Outstanding Teaching Award
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2008
2008 Outstanding Teaching Award, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
-
College of Engineering Research Award
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Chile, 2014
College of Engineering Research Award, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Received in the years 2014, 2013, 2010 and 2007.
Foundations of data exchange |
On the semantics of SPARQL |
Relational and XML Data Exchange |
Preface |
Some Remarks on the Paper "semQA: SPARQL with Idempotent Disjunction" |
Special issue on database theory |
Information systems preface |
Determining the schema of a graph dataset |
Scaling and massification of KOR (Rapid Olfactory Kit) to allow early detection of COVID-19 cases |
Understanding the Implications of Cryptomining over the Fundamental Properties of the Bitcoin Protocol |
Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data |
DESCRIPTIVE COMPLEXITY FOR FUNCTION COMPLEXITY CLASSES |
Millennium Nucleus Center for Semantic Web Research |
BUILDING THE RIGHT QUERY LANGUAGE FOR THE WEB OF DATA |
EASING THE ACCESS TO THE WEB OF DATA |
National Research Center for Integrated Natural Disasters Management |
WEB DATA MODELS FOR LINKED DATA |
Net2 - Network for Enabling Networked Knowledge |
SPARQL FOR RDF DATA WITH RDFS VOCABULARY AND BLANK NODES=> SEMANTICS, COMPLEXITY AND IMPLEMENTATION |
METADATA MANAGEMENT FOR RELATIONAL AND XML DATA EXCHANGE SYSTEMS |
DATA EXCHANGE IN RELATIONAL AND XML DATA. |
DATA EXCHANGE IN RELATIONAL AND XML DATA. |
HANDLING INCONSISTENCY IN DATA BASES |
DATA MODELLING FOR DATA WAREHOUSES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION |
Easing the Access to the Web of Data |