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Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Chilean computer scientist

Summary

Chilean computer scientist

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image	Ricardo_Baeza-Yates_portrait.jpg
image_size	220px
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birth_place	Chile
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fields	Computer science
Data science
workplaces	Royal Institute of Technology
Northeastern University
NTENT
Yahoo! Labs
Pompeu Fabra University
University of Chile
alma_mater	University of Waterloo
University of Chile
thesis_title	Efficient Text Searching
thesis_year	1989
doctoral_advisor	Gaston Gonnet
notable_students	Gonzalo Navarro
known_for	Shift Or Algorithm
awards	ACM Fellow
IEEE Fellow
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Data science Northeastern University NTENT Yahoo! Labs Pompeu Fabra University University of Chile University of Chile IEEE Fellow

Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates (born March 21, 1961) is a Chilean computer scientist specializing in algorithms, data structures, information retrieval, web search and responsible AI. Since 2025 he is a part-time Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden in Stockholm. 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 AI Committee.

He is member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences (2002), founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering (2010), corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2018), and member of the Academia Europaea (2023). He is an ACM Fellow (2009). and an IEEE Fellow (2011). He is a former member of Spain's Advisory Council on AI (2019–2023).

From January 2021 to March 2025 he was the Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University in the Silicon Valley campus. From June 2016 until June 2020 he was CTO of NTENT, a semantic search technology company. Before, until February 2016, he was VP of Research for Yahoo! Labs, leading teams in United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Education

He obtained a PhD from the University of Waterloo with Efficient Text Searching, supervised by Gaston Gonnet and granted in 1989.

Research contributions

Algorithms and data structures. His contributions include algorithms for string search such as the Shift Or Algorithm and algorithms for Fuzzy string searching, inspiring also the Bitap algorithm; co-author of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures () with his former PhD advisor Gaston Gonnet,
Information retrieval. Co-author of Modern Information retrieval Addison Wesley (), 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.
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, giving the Gödel Lecture 2017 in Viena.
Responsible AI. He is one of the two main authors of the 2022 ACM Principles for Responsible Algorithmic Systems. He published an introduction to this topic.

Recognition

Dr. Baeza-Yates was awarded one of the Spanish national Computer Science awards in 2018 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. In 2024, he won the award.

References

[http://www.academia-ciencias.cl/miembrosdenumero/], Chilean Academy of Sciences, retrieved November 9, 2023.
[https://www.abc.org.br/membro/ricardo-alberto-baeza-yates/], Brazilian Academy of Sciences, retrieved November 9, 2023.
"Ricardo Baeza-Yates". Academia Europaea.
[http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=2551737&srt=all ACM Fellow award citation], retrieved February 14, 2013.
(March 7, 2011). "Introducing the 2011 Fellows: The IEEE Fellows class for 2011 has been announced". IEEE.
(July 7, 2016). "Former Yahoo! Chief Research Scientist Joins NTENT".
(January 23, 2006). "Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates Leading Yahoo Labs in Chile & Spain".
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(1992). "A New Approach to Text Searching". Communications of the ACM.
"ASIS&T Book of the Year award winners".
Baeza-Yates, Ricardo. (2018). "Bias on the Web". Communications of the ACM.
Baeza-Yates, Ricardo. (February 2022). ["Gödel Lecture 2017: Bias in the Web"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CguWbbQeruM}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead YouTube link).
(2023). "An Introduction to Responsible AI". European Review.
[https://www.fbbva.es/noticias/fallados-los-premios-investigacion-sociedad-cientifica-informatica-espana-scie-fundacion-bbva-2018/ News of the three 2018 national computer science awards of the Spanish CS Society]
[https://ingenieria.uchile.cl/noticias/219901/prof-baeza-yates-premio-nacional-de-ciencias-aplicadas-2024 Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates es el ganador del Premio Nacional de Ciencias Aplicadas y Tecnológicas 2024]

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