Balder ten Cate is a software engineeer at Google. He is also an Associate Adjunct Professor at UC Santa Cruz, where he is a member of the database research group and is currently advising two graduate students. Previously, he was a computer scientist at LogicBlox Inc, contributing to the development of a smart database system that combines transactions, analytics, planning, and business logic, powering a new class of smart enterprise applications. He was also a visiting researcher at INRIA, ENS de Cachan, and IBM Research - Almaden. Balder ten Cate received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam for a thesis on the model theory of extended modal languages. His research interests are in data management and applications of logic in computer science.
