Short biography
Ricardo Baeza-Yates received the bachelor degree in 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 U. of Waterloo, Canada, in 1989. In 1992 he was elected president of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) until 1995, being elected again in 1997.
During 1993, he received the Organization of American States award for young researchers in exact sciences. In 1997 with two Brazilian colleagues obtained the COMPAQ prize to best Brazilian research article in CS.
During 2002-2004 he was member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society. In 2003 he was incorporated to the Chilean Academy of Sciences, being the first computer scientist to achieve this position.
Research interests
Algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web mining, text and multimedia databases, software and database visualization, and user interfaces. Key words
Algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web mining, text and multimedia databases, software and database visualization, and user interfaces.