Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Scholar

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Google Scholar ID: v9xULZwAAAAJ
KTH - Univ. Pompeu Fabra - Univ. de Chile; Sweden, Spain & Chile
Responsible AIInformation retrievalWeb searchWeb miningalgorithms and data structures
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
10,095
 
H-index
38
 
i10-index
158
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
172
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - ACM Fellow
  • - IEEE Fellow
  • - Member of Academia Europaea
  • - Member of the Academy of Sciences of Chile (numerary) and Brazil (corresponding)
  • - Founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering
  • - ASIS&T's 2012 Best Information Science Book Award: Second Edition of Modern Information Retrieval (Addison Wesley, 2011)
  • - Co-authored the second edition of Modern Information Retrieval, published by Addison-Wesley in 2011
  • - Involved in multiple international organizations and initiatives such as the Global AI Ethics Consortium, Global Partnership on AI, etc.
Research Experience
  • - WASP Professor at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden
  • - Part-time professor at the Dept. of Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain
  • - Part-time professor at the Department of Computing Sciences, University of Chile in Santiago
  • - Affiliated professor at the Data Science and AI division of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gotherburg
  • - Affiliated professor at the Data Systems Group, Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • - Visiting professor at the DATA Lab, Khoury College of Computer Sciences and Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Silicon Valley campus
  • - Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University, Silicon Valley campus (2021-early 2025)
  • - Member of Spain's Council of AI (2019-2023)
  • - CTO of NTENT, a search technology company based in Carlsbad, California (2016-2020)
  • - VP of Research at Yahoo Labs, based in Barcelona, Spain, and later in Sunnyvale, California (January 2006 - February 2016)
  • - Supervised Yahoo Labs Haifa (2008-2012) and Yahoo Labs London (2012-2014)
  • - Director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computing Sciences, Engineering School, University of Chile until 2005
  • - ICREA Professor and founder of the Social and Responsible Computing Research Group (formerly Web Research Group) at the Dept. of Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain
Education
  • No specific educational background information provided.
Background
  • Research interests include algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web search and data mining, as well as data science and visualization. Actively involved in many global initiatives, committees, or advisory boards related to Responsible AI.
Miscellany
  • Engages in speaking engagements and consulting for tech startups, companies, and non-profit international institutions, particularly in responsible AI.