Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Ricardo Baeza-Yates | |
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| Born | March 21, 1961 Chile |
| Alma mater | University of Waterloo University of Chile |
| Known for | Shift Or Algorithm |
| Awards | ACM Fellow IEEE Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science Data science |
| Institutions | Royal Institute of Technology Northeastern University NTENT Yahoo! Labs Pompeu Fabra University University of Chile |
| Thesis | Efficient Text Searching (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gaston Gonnet |
| Notable students | Gonzalo Navarro |
| Website | www |
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.