Since January 2018, I am a research assistant at Information Retrieval Laboratory of University of Milano Bicocca, Italy. I obtained my PhD (with distinction) from Politecnico di Milano under the lead of Paolo Cremonesi. My research interests include recommender systems and multimedia computing. During my PhD, I was a vistiting student at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria for six month and had the pleasure to work with Markus Schedl. I have been involved in organizing ACM RecSys Challenges 2017 (hosted by Xing) and the upcoming 2019 challenge (to be hosted by Trivago) all being part of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. I am also one of the lead organizers of tasks at MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation (MediaEval) in 2018 and 2019 with the focus on leveraging content for recommendation [Content4RecSys]. To know more about my research activties, see my publication page.
Academic Services
- Organizer: ACM RecSys Challenge 2017 and 2019, MediaEval 2018 and 2019
- Reviewer: SIGIR, CIKM, AAAI, ACM MM, RECSYS, ECML-PKDD, ECIR, IDC, IPMU
- PC Member: ECIR 2019, RecSysChallenge @ RecSys 2017-2019, MediaEval 2018
news
| Nov 21, 2018 | The information about ACM Recommender System Challenge 2019 is now live! |
|---|---|
| Oct 12, 2018 | Our US PATENT application titled "Enhanced content-based multimedia recommendation method" has been just accepted! See publication page. |
| Oct 06, 2018 | The ACM RecSys Challenge 2019 will be co-organized by trivago and presents a real-world task in the travel metasearch domain. See RecSys Challenge 2019 homepage. Stay tuned for new information! |
| Sep 14, 2018 | Our Mediaeval 2018 task overview paper is now available. See publication page (Extended Abstracts/Workshops). |
| Sep 14, 2018 | Our paper at TKDE was accepted! The research was done in collobration with the bioinformatic group of Politecnico di Milano and George Washington univeristy. See publication page. |
| July 17, 2018 | Has now a PhD with DISTINCTION! (Italian: con lode, highest possible PhD grade.) |
| July 10, 2018 | My paper at RecSys 2018 accepted! See publication page. |
| June 16, 2018 | A brand-new tutorial accepted for presentation at RecSys 2018 on Multimedia Recommender Systems! Visit RecSys 2018 Tutorial page. |
| June 7, 2018 | Me, Peter Kness and Farshad Bakhshandegan Moghaddam will be the academic organizers of ACM Recommender System Challenge 2019, new information to come soon, stay tuned! |