Baeza Yates, Ricardo Alberto
Lecturer
Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicac
University Pompeu Fabra
Spain
Biography
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is currently CTO of NTENT, a search technology company based in Carlsbad, California, since June 2016. Before he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs, based in Barcelona, Spain, and later in Sunnyvale, California, from January 2006 to February 2016. Between 2008 and 2012 he also supervised Yahoo Labs Haifa and between 2012 and 2014 Yahoo Labs London. Until 2005 he was the director of the Center for Web Research at the Department of Computer Science of the Engineering School of the University of Chile; and ICREA Professor and founder of the Web Research Group at the Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He maintains ties with both mentioned universities as a part-time professor. His research interests includes algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web search and data mining, and data science and visualization. He is ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.
Research Interest
DATA SOURCE, SOFTWARE, DIGITAL MEDIA
Publications
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Carlos Castillo (Ph.D. Univ. of Chile 2004), former Ph.D. student on crawling algorithms.
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Gonzalo Navarro (Ph.D. Univ. of Chile 1998), former Ph.D. student on approximate string matching. His M.Sc. thesis was related to query languages to text databases using also the text structure.
