Ricardo Baeza-Yates


Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates 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.
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 and Latin America.
He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo with Efficient Text Searching, supervised by Gaston Gonnet and granted in 1989.
His research interests include:
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 . He has been proposed again most of even years when this award is given.
He is corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences, founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering, and corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. and an IEEE Fellow.