Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Chile
Alma materUniversity of Waterloo
University of Chile
Known forShift Or Algorithm
AwardsACM Fellow
IEEE Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Data Science
InstitutionsNortheastern University
NTENT
Yahoo! Labs
Pompeu Fabra University
University of Chile
Thesis Efficient Text Searching  (1989)
Doctoral advisorGaston Gonnet
Notable studentsGonzalo Navarro
Websitewww.baeza.cl

Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates (born March 21, 1961) is a Chilean-Catalan-American computer scientist that currently is the Director of Research of the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University in the Silicon Valley campus. He is also part-time professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Universidad de Chile in Santiago. He is an expert member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery's US Technology Policy Committee as well as IEEE's Ethics Committee.

He is member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences (2002),[1] founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering (2010), and corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2018).[2] He is an ACM Fellow (2009).[3] and an IEEE Fellow (2011).[4] He is a former member of Spain's Advisory Council on AI (2019-2023).

From June 2016 until June 2020 he was CTO of NTENT, a semantic search technology company.[5] Before, until February 2016, he was VP of Research for Yahoo! Labs, leading teams in United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America.[6]

He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo with Efficient Text Searching, supervised by Gaston Gonnet and granted in 1989.[7]

His research interests include:

Dr. Baeza-Yates was awarded one of the Spanish national Computer Science awards in 2018[14] 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)[citation needed]. He has been proposed again most of even years when this award is given.

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References

  1. ^ [1], Chilean Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2023-11-09.
  2. ^ [2], Brazilian Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2023-11-09.
  3. ^ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2013-02-14.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Former Yahoo! Chief Research Scientist Joins NTENT". Business Wire. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  6. ^ Baker, Loren (23 January 2006). "Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates Leading Yahoo Labs in Chile & Spain". Search Engine Journal. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  7. ^ Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. ^ "dblp: Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates". DBLP Computer Science Bibliography. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  9. ^ 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)
  10. ^ "ASIS&T Book of the Year award winners". Association for Information Science and Technology. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  11. ^ Baeza-Yates, Ricardo (2018). "Bias on the Web". Communications of the ACM. 61 (6): 54–61. doi:10.1145/3209581. S2CID 44111303.
  12. ^ Baeza-Yates, Ricardo, Gödel Lecture 2017: Bias in the Web[dead YouTube link]
  13. ^ Baeza-Yates, Ricardo (2023). "An Introduction to Responsible AI". European Review. 31 (4): 406–421. doi:10.1017/S1062798723000145.
  14. ^ News of the three 2018 national computer science awards of the Spanish CS Society

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