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Yashar Deldjoo is a senior research scientist and a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy. He serves as a senior program committee (SPC) for major conferences such as SIGIR, CIKM, ECAI, and WebConf, and is an associate editor for ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). Yashar earned his Ph.D. with distinction in computer science from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and an M.Sc. in electrical engineering from Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden). His research focuses on recommender systems, and integrating the main trustworthy AI principles such as fairness, adversarial robustness, and explainability into the recommendation systems.

His recent research focuses on exploring the benefits and risks of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) in recommender systems, with particular emphasis on their societal impact. Yashar is the main mastermind behind the forthcoming book "Recommendation with Generative Models," scheduled for publication in "Fn&tIR" in 2024-2025, building upon the GenRecSys-Survey, presented as tutorial at KDD'24. Additionally, he has been the driving force for major contributions to multi-modal recommender systems, including fashion, textiles, video, and music recommendations, and has contributed chapters to the Recommender Systems Handbook (2021) by F. Ricci, L. Rokach, B. Shapira, the best book in the RecSys community.

In 2023 and 2024, Yashar was recognized among the top 2% of research scientists worldwide according to Stanford University's Ioannidis database.

(1) We are thrilled to announce the release of a major manuscript, the result of extensive collaboration between industry and academia, titled "Recommendation with Generative Models", which is planned for publication in FntIR 2024. This work builds significantly upon our recent survey and tutorial presented at SIGKDD 2024 (Survey-GenRecSys-KDD2024).

(2) Listen to my discussion with Marcel Kurovski at Recspert, "PodCast: Generative Models for Recommender Systems with Yashar Deldjoo". I present my perspective on the evolution of generative recommender systems (Gen-RecSys) and their impact on recommender systems, addressing both technical aspects (e.g., deep generative models, modeling paradigms) and socio-ethical considerations (e.g., fairness, privacy, transparency), as well as discussing various stakeholders, evaluation methods, risks, and potential harms.

(3) We are organizing the "The 1st Workshop on Risks, Opportunities, and Evaluation of Generative Models in Recommender Systems", the main specialized workshop on LLMs and Generative Models AT ACM RecSys 2024 (ROEGEN@RecSys'24). Deadline for submission: August 30, 2024.

Yashar Deldjoo

deldjooy at acm.org

Services

Associate Editor/Distinguished Reviewer

  • Distinguished Reviewer: ACM Transaction on Recommender Systems (ACM TORS) - The First Journal of Recommender Systems
  • Associate Editor: ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Ranked 3/111 Journal in CS, IF:16.6
  • Guest Editor: ACM TORS, SI on "Trustworthy Recommender Systems", 2023-2024.

Senior PC or Conference Chair

  • Conference Track Chair: LBR and Demo Track - ACM RecSys'24.
  • Senior Program Committee (PC): CIKM'24 (short track), SIGIR'24 (full and short), ECAI'24, SIGIR'23 (full and short), the WebConf'23
  • Area Chair: EWAF'23 and 24 (European workshop on Algorithmic Fairness)

Regular PC or Reviewer

  • Regular PC for Major IR/RecSys conferences: SIGIR, RecSys, WebConf, ECAI, etc
  • Reviewer for high-esteemed Journals: PAMI, UMUAI, ACM CSUR, IP&M, ACM TOIS, ACM TORS, etc

News

Surveys

  • A Review of Modern Recommender Systems Using Generative Models (Gen-RecSys)
    Yashar Deldjoo, Zhankui He, Julian McAuley, Anton Korikov, Scott Sanner, Arnau Ramisa, René Vidal, Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Silvia Milano    
    Under Review
    arXiv

  • Interactive Question Answering Systems: Literature Review
    Giovanni Maria Biancofiore, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Fedelucio Narducci    
    ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR - Accepted) 2024
    PDF

  • Content-driven Music Recommendation: Evolution, State of the Art, and Challenges
    Yashar Deldjoo, Markus Schedl, Peter Knees    
    Computer Science Review (CS-Review) 2024
    PDF

  • A Review of Modern Fashion Recommender Systems                   https://yasdel.github.io/img/amazon_logo_scaled.png
    Yashar Deldjoo, Fatemeh Nazary, Arnau Ramisa, Julian Mcauley, G. Pellegrini, A. Bellogin, T. Di Noia    
    ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR) 2023
    PDF

  • Fairness in Recommender Systems: Research Landscape and Future Directions
    Yashar Deldjoo, Dietmar Jannach, Alejandro Bellogin, Alessandro Diffonzo, Dario Zanzonelli    
    User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI) 2023
    PDF | [Github-Repo].

  • A Survey on Adversarial Recommender Systems: from Attack/Defense Strategies to Generative Adversarial Networks
    Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso. Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra    
    ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR) 2022
    PDF

  • Recommender System Leveraging Multimedia Content
    Yashar Deldjoo, Markus Schedl, Paolo Cremonesi, Gabriella Pasi    
    ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR) 2021
    PDF

  • Current challenges and visions in music recommender systems research
    Markus Schedl, Hamed Zamani, Ching-Wei Chen,Yashar Deldjoo, Mehdi Elahi    
    International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR) 2018
    PDF

Book Chapters

  • Multimedia recommender systems: Algorithms and challenges
    Yashar Deldjoo, Markus Schedl, Balázs Hidasi, Yinwei Wei, Xiangnan He    
    Recommender Systems Handbook (RSHB-MM) 2023
    PDF

  • Adversarial recommender systems: Attack, defense, and advances
    Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra    
    Recommender Systems Handbook (RSHB-AdvML) 2023
    PDF

Tutorials

  • Understanding Language Modeling Paradigm Adaptations in Recommender Systems: Lessons Learned and Open Challenge
    L Zhang, P Liu, Yashar Deldjoo, ZY Gulla, J Atle    
    Accepted to ECAI'24 2024
    arXiv

  • Pursuing Privacy in Recommender Systems:                     https://yasdel.github.io/img/twitter_logo.png
    The View of Users and Researchers from Regulations to Applications
    Vito Walter Anelli, Luca Belli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Antonio Ferrara, Fedelucio Narducci, Claudio Pomo    
    The 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'21) 2021
    PDF | SLIDES

  • Adversarial Learning for Recommendation (AL4Rec Tutorial)
    Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra    
    The 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'21) 2021
    SLIDES

  • Adversarial Learning for Recommendation: Applications for Security and Generative Tasks — Concept to Code
    Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra    
    The 14th ACM Conference of Recommender Systems (RecSys'20) 2020
    PDF | SLIDES/Code

  • Adversarial Machine Learning in Recommender Systems (AML-RecSys)
    Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra    
    The 13th ACM International Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM'20) 2020
    PDF SLIDES

  • Multi-media Recommender Systems
    Yashar Deldjoo, Markus Schedl, Balázs Hidasi, Peter Knees    
    The 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys'18) 2018
    PDF

Selected Technical papers

  • A Normative Framework for Benchmarking Consumer Fairness in Large Language Model Recommender System
    Yashar Deldjoo, Fatemeh Nazary    
    ROEGEN@RecSys 2024
    arXiv

  • XAI4LLMs. Let Machine Learning Models and LLMs Collaborate for Enhanced In-Context Learning in Healthcare
    Fatemeh Nazary, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciacio    
    Under Review, 2024
    arXiv

  • CFaiRLLM: Consumer Fairness Evaluation in Large-Language Model Recommender System
    Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso di Noia    
    Under Review, 2024
    arXiv

  • Understanding Biases in ChatGPT-based Recommender Systems: Provider Fairness, Temporal Stability, and Recency
    Yashar Deldjoo    
    Under Review, 2024
    arXiv

  • A Personalized Framework for Consumer and Producer Group Fairness Optimization in Recommender Systems
    Hossein A. Rahmani, Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei, Yashar Deldjoo    
    ACM Transaction on Recommender Systems (TORS), 2024
    PDF

  • ChatGPT-HealthPrompt. Harnessing the Power of XAI in Prompt-Based Healthcare Decision Support using ChatGPT
    Fatemeh Nazary,Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso di Noia    
    XI-ML@ECAI'23, 2023
    PDF , Code

  • Fairness of ChatGPT and the Role Of Explainable-Guided Prompts
    Yashar Deldjoo    
    COLLM@ECML-PKDD'23, 2023
    arXiv, Code

  • Computational Versus Perceived Popularity Miscalibration in Recommender Systems
    Oleg Lesota, G. Escobedo, Yashar Deldjoo, Bruce Ferwerda, S. Kopeinik, Elisabeth Lex, Navid Rekabsaz, Markus Schedl    
    The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'23) 2023
    PDF

  • A Unifying and General Account of Fairness Measurement in Recommender Systems
    Enrique Amigó, Yashar Deldjoo, Stefano Mizzaro, Alejandro Bellogín    
    Information Processing & Management (IP&M) 2023
    PDF

  • Auditing Consumer- and Producer-Fairness in Graph Collaborative Filtering
    Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Daniele Malitesta, V. Paparella, C. Pomo    
    The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'23) 2023
    PDF

  • CPFair: Personalized Consumer and Producer Fairness Re-ranking for Recommender Systems
    Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei, Hossein A. Rahmani, Yashar Deldjoo    
    The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (FULL-SIGIR'22) 2022
    PDF

  • Music4All-Onion. A Large-Scale Multi-faceted Content-Centric Music Recommendation Dataset
    Marta Moscati, Emilia Parada-Cabaleiro, Yashar Deldjoo, Eva Zangerle, Markus Schedl    
    The 31th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM'22) 2022
    PDF

  • IEEE13-AdvAttack A Novel Dataset for Benchmarking the Power of Adversarial Attacks against Fault Prediction Systems in Smart Electrical Grid
    Carmelo Ardito, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Fatemeh Nazary    
    The 31th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM'22) 2022
    PDF

  • Exploring the Impact of Temporal Bias in Point-of-Interest Recommendation
    Hossein A Rahmani, Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei, Ali Tourani, Yashar Deldjoo    
    The 16th ACM Conference of Recommender Systems (RecSys'22) 2022
    PDF

  • Leveraging Content-Style Item Representation for Visual Recommendation
    Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Danielle Malitesta, Felice Merra, Antonio    
    The 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'22) 2022
    PDF

  • Visual Inspection of Fault Type and Zone Prediction in Electrical Grids using Interpretable Spectrogram-based CNN Modeling
    Carmelo Ardito, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Fatemeh Nazary    
    Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA) 2022
    PDF

  • The Role of Context Fusion on Accuracy, Beyond-Accuracy, and Fairness of Point-of-Interest Recommendation Systems
    Hossein A. Rahmani, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia    
    Expert Systems with Applications (ESWA) 2022
    PDF

  • User-controlled federated matrix factorization for recommender systems
    Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Antonio Ferrara, Fedelucio Narducci    
    Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS) 2022
    PDF

  • Machine-learned Adversarial Attacks against Fault Prediction Systems in Smart Electrical Grids
    Carmelo Ardito, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Fatemeh Nazary, Giovanni Servedio    
    The 4th Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning (ADvML@KDD'22) 2022
    PDF

  • Explaining Recommender Systems Fairness and Accuracy through the lens of Data Characteristics
    Yashar Deldjoo, Alejandro Bellogín, Tommaso Di Noia    
    Information Processing & Management (IP&M) 2021
    PDF

  • A Study of Defensive Methods to Protect Visual Recommendation Against Adversarial Manipulation of Images
    Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Danielle Malitesta, Felice Merra, Antonio    
    The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (FULL-SIGIR'21) 2021
    PDF

  • Towards Multi-Modal Conversational Information Seeking
    Yashar Deldjoo Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani    
    The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (Perspective-SIGIR'21) 2021
    PDF

  • A Formal Analysis of Recommendation Quality of Adversarially-trained Recommenders🏆
    Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Felice Antonio Merra    
    The 30th ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM'21) 2021
    PDF (Runner-Up Paper)

  • Understanding the Effects of Adversarial Personalized Ranking Optimization Method on Recommendation Quality 🏆
    Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra    
    The 3rd Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning (ADvML@KDD'21) 2021
    PDF (IBM-Watson Award)

  • A Study on the Relative importance of Convolutional Neural Networks in Visually-aware Recommender Systems
    Yashar Deldjoo Tommaso Di Noia, Daniele Malitesta, Felice Antonio Merra    
    The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'21) 2021
    PDF

  • FedeRank: User Controlled Feedback with Federated Recommender Systems
    Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Antonio Ferrara, Fedelucio Narducci    
    The 43th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'21) 2021
    PDF

  • A Flexible Framework for Evaluating User and Item Fairness in Recommender Systems
    Yashar Deldjoo, Vito Walter Anelli, Hamed Zamani, Alejandro Bellogin, Tommaso Di Noia    
    User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI) 2021
    PDF

  • Session-based Hotel Recommendations Dataset                           https://yasdel.github.io/img/logo_trivago.png
    As part of the ACM Recommender System Challenge 2019
    Jens Adamczak, Yashar Deldjoo, Farshad B. Moghaddam, Peter Knees, Gerard P. Leyson, Philipp Monreal
    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 2021
    PDF

  • MSAP: Multi-Step Adversarial Perturbations on Recommender Systems Embeddings
    Vito Walter Anelli, Alejandro Bellogín, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra    
    The 34th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS'21) 2021
    PDF

  • How Dataset Characteristics Affect the Robustness of Collaborative Recommendation Models
    Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Felice Antonio Merra    
    The 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (FULL-SIGIR'20) 2020
    PDF

  • Sasha: Semantic-aware shilling attacks on recommender systems exploiting knowledge graphs
    Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Felice Antonio Merra    
    European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'20) 2020
    PDF

  • Movie genome: alleviating new item cold start in movie recommendation
    Yashar Deldjoo, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Mihai G. Constantin, Hamid Eghbal-Zadeh, Stefano Cereda, Markus Schedl, Bogdan Ionescu, Paolo Cremonesi    
    User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI) 2019
    PDF

  • Audio-visual encoding of multimedia content for enhancing movie recommendations
    Yashar Deldjoo, Mihai G. Constantin, Hamid Eghbal-Zadeh, Bogdan Ionescu, Markus Schedl, Paolo Cremonesi    
    The 12th ACM Conference of Recommender Systems (RecSys'18) 2018
    PDF

  • Exploring The Semantic Gap for Movie Recommendation
    Mehdi Elahi, Yashar Deldjoo, Farshad B. Moghaddam, Leonardo Cella, Stefano Cereda, Paolo Cremonesi    
    The 11th ACM Conference of Recommender Systems (RecSys'17) 2017
    PDF

Positions

  • August 2022 - Now
    Tenure track Assistant Professor (RtD-B) at Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy
  • August 2019 - July 2022
    Assistant Professor (RtD-A) at Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy
  • April 2019 - July 2019
    PostDoc researcher at Polytechnic University of Bari, Bari, Italy
  • Jan 2018 - Feb 2019
    Research Assistant at University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
  • 2008 - 2009
    Carried out my Master's Thesis at the Multimedia Dept. of Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden

Education