Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates (born March 21, 1961) is a Chilean computer scientist that currently is the Director of Research of the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University in the Silicon Valley campus.

He is also part-time professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Universidad de Chile in Santiago.

Labs, leading teams in United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

[7] He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo with Efficient Text Searching, supervised by Gaston Gonnet and granted in 1989.

In August 2008, Dr. Baeza-Yates was proposed for the first time to the Chilean National Prize in Applied Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias Aplicadas)[citation needed].