Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Full Professor at the University of Chile and senior researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data. He is 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, USA, 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 oversaw 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 (previously Web Research Group) in the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He maintains links with both universities as 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.