Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates (born March 21, 1961) is a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

an- Catalan

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that currently is a Research Professor at the Institute for Experiential AI of

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in the Silicon Valley campus. He is also part-time professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and

Universidad de Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

in Santiago. He is an expert member of the

Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI, or "''gee-pay"'') is an international and multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to advance the responsible and human-centric development and use of artificial intelligence. Specifically, G ...

, a member of

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's Advisory Council on AI, and a member of the

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's US Technology Policy Subcommittee on AI and Algorithms. 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

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and granted in 1989. His research interests include: *

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s and

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s. His contributions include algorithms for string search such as the

Shift Or Algorithm The bitap algorithm (also known as the shift-or, shift-and or Baeza-Yates–Gonnet algorithm) is an approximate string matching algorithm. The algorithm tells whether a given text contains a substring which is "approximately equal" to a given patter ...

and algorithms for

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, inspiring also the

Bitap algorithm The bitap algorithm (also known as the shift-or, shift-and or Baeza-Yates–Gonnet algorithm) is an approximate string matching algorithm. The algorithm tells whether a given text contains a substring which is "approximately equal" to a given patter ...

; co-author of the
Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures
' with his former Ph.D. advisor

, *

Information retrieval Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...

. Co-author of
Modern Information retrieval
' Addison Wesley, , first edition in 1999 and a second edition in 2011 that won the 2012 book of the year award of the Association for Information Science and Technology. * Web search and mining. Baeza-Yates founded in 2002 and directed until 2005 th
Center for Web Research
in the Department of Computer Science of the

University of Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

. His latest work on this area focuses on bias on the Web, giving the Gödel Lecture 2017 in Viena. 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 ''(Premio Nacional de Ciencias Aplicadas)''. He has been proposed again most of even years when this award is given. He is corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences (2003), founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering (2010), and corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (2018). He is an

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(2009). and an

IEEE Fellow As of 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has 5,082 members designated Fellow, each of whom is associated with one of the 41 societies under the IEEE. The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membershi ...

(2011)..

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Website of Modern Information Retrieval, 2nd. edition, Addison Wesley, 2011

Cómo funciona la web (2008)
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