Program
The workshop will be held as a half-day workshop on the morning of June 08, 2026, at ACM UMAP 2026

Keynote Speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Brief Biography
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a part-time professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and also holds part-time positions at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and at the University of Chile in Santiago. He is additionally affiliated with Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Gothenburg, and the University of Waterloo, and is a visiting professor at Northeastern University’s Silicon Valley campus. He was previously Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University (2021-2025), Vice President of Research at Yahoo Labs (2006-2016), and CTO of NTENT (2016-2020). He is co-author of the best-selling textbook Modern Information Retrieval (Addison-Wesley, 1999; 2nd ed., 2011), winner of the ASIST 2012 Book of the Year Award. Ricardo Baeza-Yates is one of the leading global experts in Responsible AI, with significant contributions to web search, data mining, information retrieval, and algorithmic bias. He is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, and a member of several international academies, including Academia Europaea and the Chilean Academy of Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in 1989.


