I am working in the database group at UC
Santa Cruz, on the principles of data exchange and data integration systems.
From April - October, 2009, I was a visiting researcher at
INRIA (WebDam)
and ENS de
Cachan (Dahu)
on foundations of web data management. Before that, I was working
at the University of Amsterdam (Informatics Institute, ISLA lab),
where I was
the principal investigator of a three-year research project on abstract model theory for
logics in computer science, focusing in particular on XML query languages. In 2008, I spent
half a year at UC Santa Cruz and at IBM Research - Almaden as a visiting researcher.
I received my
PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2005 for a thesis on the model
theory of extended modal languages.
Balder ten Cate
Associate adjunct professor
University of California, Santa Cruz
Dept. of Computer Science
(DB Group)
Office E2-247B (Engineering 2)
1156 High Street MS:SOE3,
Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Tel: +1 831 459 3250 (work) / +1 650 799 6359 (cell)
Email: btencate@ucsc.edu
Recent activities:
- 2013
- PC member of ICDT 2013
- 2012
- Invited speaker at AiML 2012.
- ICDT 2012 Best Paper Award ('Learning Schema Mappings', with Victor Dalmau and Phokion Kolaitis)
- 2011
- PC member of LICS 2011, LID 2011
- External PhD thesis committee member of Antti Kuusisto (Univ. of Tampere)
- 2010
- PC member of WWW 2010,
FoIKS 2010,
AiML 2010, and
WoLLIC 2010
- External PhD thesis committee member of Gaëlle Fontaine (Univ. of Amsterdam)
- External PhD thesis committee member of Ruaan Kellerman (Univ. of Witwatersrand)
- External PhD thesis committee member of Gaëlle Fontaine (Univ. of Amsterdam)
- 2009
- PC member of ACM PODS 2009,
ICDT 2009,
MFCS 2009, and
M4M 2009
- Invited speaker at the Workshop on Automata and Algorithmic Logic, Stuttgart 2009
- 2008
- On leave visiting IBM Almaden Research Center and UC Santa Cruz (Jan-Aug 2008)
- Lecturer at the ESSLLI 2008 summer school
- 2007
- PC member of ESSLLI 2007, and
TbiLLC 2007
- Invited speaker at M4M 2007, and at HyLo 2007
- Lecturer at the 2007 Vienna-Tbilisi summer school in logic & language
- Invited speaker at M4M 2007, and at HyLo 2007
- 2006
- PC member of HyLo 2006
- Received EACSL Ackermann best dissertation award 2006
- 2005
- PC member of TbiLLC 2005
- 2004
- Lecturer at the ESSLLI 2004 summer school
- 2003
- PC chair of the ESSLLI 2003 student session
- Invited speaker at ICOS 2003
- 2002 - ...
- Board member of the Dutch association for logic (in 2005-2009 as secretary)