Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a Chilean researcher and director of the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile.

His research interests include:

algorithms and data structures -- his contributions include algorithms for string search such as the Shift Or Algorithm, and algorithms for Fuzzy string searching, inspiring 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 ISBN 0-201-39829-X,
web retrieval and mining -- funded in 2002 and directed until 2005 the Center for Web Research in the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Chile,
text and multimedia databases,
and information visualization.