Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Ricardo Baeza-Yates serves as Research Professor at Northeastern University's Institute for Experiential AI and holds part-time professorships at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and Universidad de Chile (Santiago). Previously, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs (2006-2016) with bases in Barcelona and Sunnyvale.

He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1989. His foundational work includes co-authoring the award-winning textbook Modern Information Retrieval (Addison-Wesley, 1999/2011).

His research spans Information Retrieval, Web Search, Data Mining, AI Bias, Data Science, and Algorithms. Current work at Northeastern's Institute for Experiential AI focuses on mitigating bias in AI systems through experiential methodologies.

His major distinctions include:

• ASIST 2012 Book of the Year award
• ACM Fellow (2009)
• IEEE Fellow (2011)
• Founding Member of Chilean Academy of Engineering (2010)

Professional leadership encompasses IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors (2002-2004) and ACM Council membership (2012-2016). He maintains active roles in AI ethics governance and algorithmic fairness initiatives across his institutional affiliations.