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Ricardo Baeza-Yates (born March 21, 1961) is a Chilean computer scientist and currently VP for EMEA and Latin America leading the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, supervising also the lab in Haifa, Israel. His Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo was entitled Efficient Text Searching, supervised by Gaston Gonnet and granted in 1989.

Ruben Tous (born July 31, 1974) is a Spainan computer scientist and currently co-Chair of the Metadata subgroup of JPEG Metadatfor EMEA and Latin America leading the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile, supervising also the lab in Haifa, Israel.

got his Ph.D in Computer Science and Digital Communication from UPF(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) in 2006. Previously he got degrees in Computer Science (UPC, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) and Business Management (UPF). From 2000 to 2001 he worked as a consultant at CapGemini Ernst&Young in Barcelona. From 2001 to 2005 he worked at the Department of Techology of UPF. Since 2006 he is a researcher at DMAG (Distributed Multimedia Applications Group) of the Department of Computer Architecture of UPC and an Associate Professor.

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 Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-39829-X, first edition in 1999 and second edition in 2011,
 * Web retrieval 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, Dr. Baeza-Yates was proposed for the Chilean National Prize in Applied Sciences (Premio Nacional de Ciencias Aplicadas) He was proposed again in 2010. He is corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences (2003) and funding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering (2010). He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009). and a fellow of the IEEE (2011).