Ricardo Alberto Baeza-Yates

Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a part-time WASP Professor at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2025. He is also a part-time Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and at Universidad de Chile in Santiago. From 2021 to early 2025 he was the Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University. Before, from 2016 to 2020 he was the CTO of NTENT, a semantic search technology company based in California and prior to these roles, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs, based in Barcelona, Spain, and later in Sunnyvale, California, from 2006 to 2016. He is co-author of the best-seller Modern Information Retrieval textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 1999 and 2011 (2nd ed), which won the ASIST 2012 Book of the Year award. From 2002 to 2004 he was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society and between 2012 and 2016 was elected to the ACM Council. Since 2010 he has been a founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering. In 2009 he was elevated to ACM Fellow and in 2011 to IEEE Fellow. He obtained the Spanish National Research Award Ángela Ruiz Robles for applied research and technology transfer given by the Scientific Computing Societies of Spain and the BBVA Foundation in 2018 and the Chilean National Award on Applied and Technological Sciences in 2024, among other distinctions. He obtained a Ph.D. in CS from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his areas of expertise are responsible AI, web search and data mining, information retrieval, data science and algorithms in general.