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Ricardo Baeza-Yates is currently a part-time WASP Professot at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also a part-time professor at the Dept. of Engineering of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, as well as at the Department of Computing Sciences of the University of Chile in Santiago. He is also an affiliated professor at the Data Science and AI division of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gotherburg as well as at the Data Systems Group of the Cheriton School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo, Canada. Finally, he is also a visiting professor at the DATA Lab of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the Network Science Institute of Northeastern University at its Silicon Valley campus. The rest of the time he does speaking engagements and consulting for tech startups, companies and non-profit international institutions, particularly in responsible AI. His research interests includes algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web search and data mining, and data science and visualization. He is actively involved as expert in many initiatives, committees or advisory boards related to Responsible AI all around the world: Global AI Ethics Consortium, Global Partnership on AI, IADB's fAIr LAC Initiative (Latin America and the Caribbean), and ACM's US Technology Policy Committee. He is also a co-founder of OptIA in Chile, a NGO devoted to algorithmic transparency and inclusion, and member of the editorial committee of the new AI and Ethics Journal where he co-authored an article highlighting the importance of research freedom on AI ethics. He is ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow as well as member of the Academia Europaea, the Academy of Sciences of Chile (numerary) and Brazil (corresponding), and the Chilean Academy of Engineering (founding member).
Between 2021 and early 2025 he was Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University, Silicon Valley campus.
Between 2019 and 2023 he was a member of Spain's Council of AI.
Between 2016 and 2020 he was CTO of NTENT, a search technology company based in
Carlsbad, California. Previously, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs, based in Barcelona, Spain, and later in Sunnyvale, California, from January 2006 to February 2016. Between 2008 and 2012 he also supervised Yahoo Labs Haifa and between 2012 and 2014 Yahoo Labs London. Until 2005 he was the
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