Ricardo Baeza-Yates#
| Membership Number: | 6465 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.baeza.cl/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3208-9778 |
| Twitter: | @PolarBearby |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardobaezayates/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - today Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University at Silicon Valley, USA
- 2006 - today Professor (part-time) at the Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- 2004 - today Professor (part-time) at the Dept. of Computing Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- 2017 - 2020 Director for Graduate Programs in Data Science (half-time), Northeastern University at SiliconValley, USA
- 2006 - 2016 VP of Research, Yahoo Labs, Spain & USA
- 2004 - 2005 ICREA Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- 1989 - 2004 Professor, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Fields of Scholarship
- Algorithms
- Responsible AI
- Web search and mining
- Machine learning
- Information retrieval
- Data Mining
- Data science
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Corresponding Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Award Salvà i Campillo to the Person of the Year, Catalan Association of Telecommunications Engineers with the cooperation of the Association of Computing Engineers of Catalonia
- 2018 National Research Award for applied research and technology transfer, Scientific Computing Societies of Spain & BBVA Foundation, Spain
- 2012 Master inventor award, Yahoo
- 2012 ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award for the second edition of Modern Information Retrieval
- 2011 IEEE Fellow for contributions to the development of computer science
- 2010 National Award of the Chilean Association of Engineers
- 2009 ACM Fellow for contributions to information retrieval algorithms and techniques
- 2009 CLEI Distinction to Achievements in Informatics, given by the Latin American association of CS departments to people that has contributed to the development of Computer Science in the region
- 2007 J. W. Graham Medal in Computing & Innovation given to distinguished alumni of the University of Waterloo, Canada
- 2004 Erskine Fellowship from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- 2003 Chilean Fulbright Commission Fellowship in Information Technology
- 2002 Manuel Montt award to "Modern Information Retrieval" as the best technical book published by Chilean authors during 1997-2001
- 2002 Corresponding member Chilean Academy of Sciences
- 2001 Award from Informatics Magazine (IDG Chile) for the Development of IT in Chile
- 1997 COMPAQ Award to the best Brazilian research article in CS published in 1996 (with Eduardo Barbosa and Nivio Ziviani), 1997
- 1994 Award "Ramon Salas Edwards" of the Institute of Engineers of Chile to the best research on engineering on the last 4 years
- 1993 Award of the Organization of American States (OAS) for young researchers in Exact Sciences
- 1992 Award from PC Software magazine to the best Chilean software, SearchCity (with Pablo Palma)
- 1985 Award "Marcos Orrego Puelma" of the Institute of Engineers of Chile to the best engineering student graduated in Chile during 1985
