Berthier Ribeiro-Neto received a B.Sc. degree in Math, a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering, and an MS degree in Computer Science, all from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1995. Since then, he has been with the Computer Science Department at the Federal University of Minas Gerais where he is an Associate Professor.
His main interests are information retrieval systems, search engines, digital libraries, and Web applications. He has been involved in a number of research projects financed through Brazilian national agencies such as the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) and the National Research Council (CNPq).
Dr. Ribeiro-Neto has also been supported by the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), through an individual research grant. He has been in the program committee of several international events and in the review board of major journals in Computer Science. He is a co-founder of Akwan Information Technologies, a search engine company that was sold to Google in July of 2005. He is also co-author of the book Modern Information Retrieval, Addison Wesley, 1999, the best selling book in information retrieval, adopted in hundreds of universities around the world. He is a member of ASIS, ACM, and IEEE.