Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates (born March 21, 1961) is a Chilean-Catalan computer scientist and currently part-time Director of Data Science of Northeastern University at the Silicon Valley campus. He is also part-time professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Universidad de Chile in Santiago.

Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Born1961 (age 59–60)
Chile
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo
University of Chile
AwardsACM Fellow
IEEE Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Data Science
InstitutionsNortheastern University
NTENT
Yahoo! Labs
Pompeu Fabra University
University of Chile
Doctoral advisorGaston Gonnet
Websitewww.baeza.cl

From June 2016 until June 2020 he was CTO of NTENT, a semantic search technology company.[1] Before, until February 2016, he was VP of Research for Yahoo! Labs, leading teams in United States, Europe and Latin America.[2]

He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo with Efficient Text Searching, supervised by Gaston Gonnet and granted in 1989.[3]

His research interests include:

  • Algorithms and data structures. His contributions[4] include algorithms for string search such as the Shift Or Algorithm and algorithms for Fuzzy string searching, inspiring[5] also the Bitap algorithm; co-author of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures ISBN 0-201-14218-X with his former Ph.D. advisor Gaston Gonnet,
  • Information retrieval. Co-author of Modern Information retrieval Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-39829-X, first edition in 1999 and a second edition in 2011 that won the 2012 book of the year award of the Association for Information Science and Technology.[6]
  • Web search and mining. Baeza-Yates founded in 2002 and directed until 2005 the Center for Web Research in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chile. His latest work on this area focuses on bias on the Web,[7] giving the Gödel Lecture 2017 in Viena.[8]

Dr. Baeza-Yates was awarded one of the Spanish national Computer Science awards in 2018[9] as well as the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation by the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2007. In August 2008, Dr. Baeza-Yates was proposed for the first time to the Chilean National Prize in Applied Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias Aplicadas). He has been proposed again most of even years when this award is given. He is corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences (2003),[10] founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering (2010), and corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2018). He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009).[11] and an IEEE Fellow (2011).[12]

References
  1. "Former Yahoo! Chief Research Scientist Joins NTENT". Business Wire. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  2. Baker, Loren (23 January 2006). "Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates Leading Yahoo Labs in Chile & Spain". Search Engine Journal. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  3. Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "dblp: Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates". DBLP Computer Science Bibliography. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  5. Baeza-Yates, Ricardo; Gonnet, Gaston (1992). "A New Approach to Text Searching". Communications of the ACM. 35 (10): 74–82. doi:10.1145/135239.135243. S2CID 207166926. (first Published at SIGIR 1989)
  6. "ASIS&T Book of the Year award winners". Association for Information Science and Technology. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  7. Baeza-Yates, Ricardo (2018). "Bias on the Web". Communications of the ACM. 61 (6): 54–61. doi:10.1145/3209581. S2CID 44111303.
  8. Baeza-Yates, Ricardo, Gödel Lecture 2017: Bias in the Web
  9. News of the three 2018 national computer science awards of the Spanish CS Society
  10. Member profile, Chilean Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2013-02-14.
  11. ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2013-02-14.
  12. "Introducing the 2011 Fellows: The IEEE Fellows class for 2011 has been announced", The Institute, IEEE, 7 March 2011, archived from the original on 26 September 2013.


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