Education
He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Waterloo with Efficient Text Searching, supervised by Gaston Gonnet and granted in 1989.
He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Waterloo with Efficient Text Searching, supervised by Gaston Gonnet and granted in 1989.
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. Company-author of the Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures X with his former Doctor of Philosophy advisor Gaston Gonnet,
Information retrieval.
Web search and mining.
Baeza-Yates funded in 2002 and directed until 2005 the Center for Web Research in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chile,
Information visualization
In August 2008, Doctor Baeza-Yates was proposed for the Chilean National Prize in Applied Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias Aplicadas) He was proposed again in 2010 and 2012. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009). and an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow (2011).
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]
He is corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences (2003) and founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering (2010).