Fernando Diaz

Fernando Diaz has extensive experience in research and academia, with a focus on information retrieval, search technologies, and recommendation systems. Starting as a Research Assistant at ProQuest in 1999, Fernando contributed to system design and evaluation. Notable roles include Director of Research at Spotify, where Fernando established a research culture and recruited top talent, and Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo!, where Fernando's work on aggregated search earned multiple best paper awards. Fernando has held academic positions such as Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Visiting Part-Time Associate Professor at New York University. With a strong educational background that includes a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fernando has published extensively and worked at renowned organizations including Google and Microsoft Research.