Andreas Pieris

Andreas Pieris is a Lecturer at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, specializing in database theory with a focus on knowledge-enriched data, uncertain data, knowledge representation, and computational logic. He has held academic positions at Vienna University of Technology (Institute of Information Systems) and the University of Oxford (Department of Computer Science). His teaching includes the advanced course Advanced Topics in Foundations of Databases (ATFD), covering relational query languages, XML databases, graph databases, and ontologies.

• Research Interests: Database theory, knowledge representation, computational logic, consistent query answering, and ontology-based data access.
• Collaborations: Extensive co-authorships with Marco Calautti, Ester Livshits, Markus Schneider, and others.
• Service: Regular participation in program committees of top-tier conferences like PODS, ICDT, IJCAI, AAAI, and KR.

His recent publications analyze Datalog query provenance, chase termination algorithms, and consistent query answering under existential rules. He emphasizes the application of computational logic to database systems, leveraging complexity theory and automata for scalable solutions.