Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an computer scientist

Computer scientist

A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....

 and currently VP for EMEA and Latin America leading the Yahoo! Research

Yahoo! Research

Yahoo! Research is a research organization established on January 2004 within Yahoo!. It is currently headed by Prabhakar Raghavan.Topics within Yahoo! Research include: Internet search, Machine Learning, Microeconomics, Media Experience, and Community Systems.Locations include:* Barcelona, Spain*...

 labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile

Santiago, Chile

Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...

, supervising also the lab in Haifa, Israel. His Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo

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 was entitled Efficient Text Searching, supervised by Gaston Gonnet

Gaston Gonnet

Gaston H. Gonnet is a Uruguayan computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to the Maple computer algebra system and the creation of an electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary.- Education and professional life :...

 and granted in 1989.

His research interests include:

• Algorithm
  Algorithm
  In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is an effective method expressed as a finite list of well-defined instructions for calculating a function. Algorithms are used for calculation, data processing, and automated reasoning...
  
  s and data structure
  Data structure
  In computer science, a data structure is a particular way of storing and organizing data in a computer so that it can be used efficiently.Different kinds of data structures are suited to different kinds of applications, and some are highly specialized to specific tasks...
  
  s. His contributions include algorithms for string search such as the Shift Or Algorithm and algorithms for Fuzzy string searching, inspiring also the Bitap algorithm
  Bitap algorithm
  The bitap algorithm is an approximate string matching algorithm...
  
  ; co-author of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures ISBN 0-201-14218-X with his former Ph.D. advisor Gaston Gonnet
  Gaston Gonnet
  Gaston H. Gonnet is a Uruguayan computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to the Maple computer algebra system and the creation of an electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary.- Education and professional life :...
  
  ,
• Information retrieval
  Information retrieval
  Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
  
  . Co-author of http://www.mir2ed.org/ ISBN 0-201-39829-X, first edition in 1999 and second edition in 2010,
• Web retrieval and mining. Baeza-Yates funded in 2002 and directed until 2005 the Center for Web Research in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chile,
• Information visualization

In August 2008, Dr. Baeza-Yates was proposed for the Chilean National Prize in Applied Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias Aplicadas) He was proposed again in 2010.
He is corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences (2003) and funding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering (2010).
He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

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 (2009). and a fellow of the IEEE (2011).

External links

• Official site: www.baeza.cl
• Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates will lead Yahoo! Research Labs new facilities in Spain and Chile