Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Professor at the University of Chile and senior researcher at Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data. He has been CTO of NTENT, a semantic search technology company based in Carlsbad, California, since June 2016, and director of the Computer Science programs at Northeastern University, Silicon Valley campus, United States, since January 2018. Previously, he was Vice President of Research at Yahoo Labs, first in Barcelona and then in Sunnyvale, California, from January 2006 to February 2016. Between 2008 and 2012, he also supervised Yahoo Labs Haifa, and between 2012 and 2015, he was in charge of Yahoo Labs London. Until 2005, he was director of the Web Research Center in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile; and ICREA professor and founder of the Web Science and Social Computing Group (formerly the Web Research Group) in the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. He maintains ties with both universities as a part-time professor. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in Canada. His research interests include algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web search and data mining, as well as data science and data visualization.