Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Ricardo Baeza-Yates received the bachelor degree in computer science (CS) in 1983 from the University of Chile. Later, he received also the M.Sc. in CS (1985), the professional title in electrical engineering (1985) and the M.Eng. in EE (1986) from the same university. He received his Ph.D. in CS from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1989. In 1992 he was elected president of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) until 1995, being elected again in for 1997-98. During 1993, he received the Organization of American States award for young researchers in exact sciences. Next year, he received the award for the best engineering research in the last four years from the Institute of Engineers of Chile. In 1997 with two Brazilian colleagues obtained the COMPAQ prize to the best Brazilian research article in CS. From 1998-2000 he was in charge of the IEEE-CS chapter in Chile and has been involved in the South American ACM Programming Contest from 1998. He was recently elected to the IEEE CS Board of Governors for the period 2002-2004.

Currently he is full professor at the CS department of the University of Chile, where he was the chair in the period 1993-95. He is also the president of CLEI, a Latin American association of CS departments; and coordinates the Iberoamerican cooperation program in Electronics and Informatics. His research interests include information retrieval, algorithms, and information visualization. He is co-author of the book Modern Information Retrieval published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley, as well as co-author of the second edition of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures (Addison-Wesley, 1991). Ricardo is the co-editor of Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Data Structures (Prentice-Hall, 1992). He has also published extensively in journals published by ACM, IEEE and SIAM. He has been visiting professor or invited speaker at several conferences and universities all around the world, as well as referee of many journals, conferences, and granting agencies. He is member of the ACM, AMS, EATCS, IEEE (senior member) & IEEE-CS, SCCC and SIAM.