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Revision as of 03:30, 1 January 2016
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates (born March 21, 1961) is a Chilean computer scientist and currently one 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 Gaston Gonnet and granted in 1989.[1]
His research interests include:
- Algorithms and data structures. His contributions[citation needed] include algorithms for string search such as the Shift Or Algorithm and algorithms for Fuzzy string searching, inspiring[citation needed] also the Bitap algorithm ; co-author of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures ISBN 0-201-14218-X with his former Ph.D. advisor Gaston Gonnet,
- Information retrieval. Co-author of Modern Information retrieval Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-39829-X, 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 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
Dr. Baeza-Yates was awarded the J.W. Graham Medal in Computing and Innovation in 2007. In August 2008, Dr. Baeza-Yates was proposed for the Chilean National Prize in Applied Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias Aplicadas)[citation needed] He was proposed again in 2010 and 2012. He is corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences (2003)[2] and founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering (2010). He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009).[3] and an IEEE Fellow (2011).[4]
References
- ^ Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Member profile, Chilean Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2013-02-14.
- ^ "Introducing the 2011 Fellows: The IEEE Fellows class for 2011 has been announced", the Institute, IEEE, 7 March 2011.
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