PROJECTS

 

-    Researcher, National Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CENIA) (Funded by Programas Centros Basales, ANID, Chile).

-    Researcher, Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) (Funded by Programa Milenio, ANID, Chile).

 

INVITED TALKS

-    "The Role of Logic in Advancing Machine Learning: Three Case Studies. Invited keynote speaker, Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata, 2024.

-    " The Expressive Power of Graph Neural Networks ". Invited keynote speaker, 16th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics (LATIN 2024).

-    "Explainability Queries for ML Models and its Connections with Data Management Problems". Invited keynote speaker, 24th International Conference on Extending Database Technology and 24th International Conference on Database Theory (EDBT/ICDT 2021).

-    "A Theoretical View on Reverse Engineering Problems for Database Query Languages". Invited keynote speaker, 32nd International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2019).

-    "A Theoretical View on Reverse Engineering Problems for Database Query Languages". Invited keynote speaker, 12th Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW 2018).

-    "Semantic Acyclicity for Conjunctive Queries: Approximations and Constraints". Invited keynote speaker, 23rd Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WoLLIC 2016).

-    "Query Languages for Graph Databases: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice". Invited keynote speaker, 30th Brazilian Symposium on Databases (SBBD 2015).

-    "Querying Graph Databases". Invited tutorial, 32nd ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2013).

 

PROGRAM COMMITTES

 

As PC Chair

 

-    41st ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, PODS 2022, Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 13-15 2022.

-    22nd International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT 2019, Lisbon, Portugal, March 26-28, 2019.

-    SIGMOD/PODS PhD Symposium 2015, May 31, Melbourne, Australia.

-    SIGMOD/PODS PhD Symposium 2014, June 22, Salt Lake City, USA.

-    XXXI Conferencia Internacional de la Sociedad Chilena de Ciencias de la Computación, SCCC 2012, November 12-16, Valparaiso, Chile.

-    The 2nd Workshop on the resurgence of Datalog in academia and industry, DATALOG2.0 2012, September 11-13, Vienna, Austria.

-    5th Alberto Mendelzon Workshop on Foundations of Data Management, AMW 2011, May 9-12, Santiago, Chile.

 

As PC Member

 

-    The 52nd EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) Aarhus, Denmark, ICALP 2025, July 8-11, 2025.

-    27th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) March 25-28, ICDT 2024, Paestum, Italy.

-    Thirty-Eighth Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) Boston, LICS 2023, 26-29 June 2023.

-    50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2022, Paris, France, July 4-8, 2022.

-    39th ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, PODS 2020, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 14-19, 2020.

-    38th ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, PODS 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 30 - July 5, 2019.

-    10th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FOIKS 2018, Budapest, Hungary, May 14-18, 2018.

-    12th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications, LATA 2018, Bar-Ilan near Tel Aviv, Israel April 8-12, 2018.

-    21st International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT 2018, Vienna, Austria, March 26-29, 2018.

-    44th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming, ICALP 2017, Warsaw, Poland, July 10-14 2017.

-    25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2016, July 9-15, 2016, New York City, USA.

-    19th International Conference on Database Theory, ICDT 2016, March 15-18, 2016, Bordeaux, France.

-    30th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, LICS 2015, July 6-10, Kyoto, Japan.

-    SIGMOD Conference 2015, June 2-4, Melbourne, Australia.

-    33rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, PODS 2014, June 23-25, Salt Lake City, USA.

-    30th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, STACS 2013, February 27 - March 2, Kiel, Germany.

-    SIGMOD Conference 2012, May 20-25, Scottsdale, USA.

-    The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Coference, APWeb 2012, April 11-13, Kunming, China.

-    20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2011, October 24-28, Glasgow, Scotland.

-    The 13th Asia-Pacific Web Coference, APWeb 2011, April 18-20, Beijing, China.

-    31st Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informatica, CLEI 2010, October 18-22, Asuncion, Paraguay.

-    4th International Workshop on Semantics in Data and Knowledge Bases, SDKB 2010, July 5, Bordeaux, France.

-    4th Alberto Mendelzon Workshop on Foundations of Data Management, AMW 2010, May 17-20, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

-    10th International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity, LCC 2009, August 10, Los Angeles, USA.

-    12th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages, DBPL 2009, August 23-24, Lyon, France.

-    International Workshop on Logic in Databases, LID 2009, October 29-30, Copenhagen, Denmark.

-    28th ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, PODS 2009, June 29 to July 2, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

-    3rd Alberto Mendelzon Workshop (AMW 2009): Chair of the Graduate Students Workshop, May 12-15, Arequipa, Peru.

-    12th Internacional Conference on Database Theory, ICDT 2009, March 23-25, St. Petersburg, Russia.

-    9th ACM Internacional Workshop on Web Information and Data Management, WIDM 2007, November 9, Lisboa, Portugal.

-    11th Internacional Symposium on Database Programming Languages, DBPL 2007, September 23-24, Vienna, Austria.

-    5th Internacional XML Database Symposium,  XSym 2007, September 23-24, Vienna, Austria.

 

EDITORIAL WORK

 

-    Member Editorial Board Logical Methods in Computer Science.

-    Editor of the Database Principles Column of the SIGMOD Record (until September 2014).

-    Editor Special Issue on Foundations of Data Management Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS).

 

ORGANIZATION

 

-    ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2024, Santiago, Chile, June 9-14, 2024 (General Chair).

-    9th Alberto Mendelzon Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW 2015), Lima, Peru, May 5-8, 2015 (General Chair).

-    21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation (WOLLIC 2014), Valparaiso, Chile, September 1-4, 2014 (Local Organizer).

-    3rd Alberto Mendelzon Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW 2009), Arequipa, Peru, May 12-15, 2009 (General Chair).