Since January 2018, I am a research assistant at Information Retrieval Laboratory of University of Milano Bicocca, Italy working with Prof. Gabriella Pasi. I obtained my PhD (with distinction) from Politecnico di Milano under the lead of Paolo Cremonesi. My research interests include recommender systems in particular multimedia recommender systems (videos, music or images) with focous on multimedia computing and user modeling. 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), 2018 (hosted by Spotify) and the upcoming 2019 challenge (to be hosted by Trivago) all being part of the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. I am also leading organization of a task at MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation (MediaEval 2018) named: “The 2018 Recommending Movies Using Content: Which content is key?”. To know more about my current research activties, see my publication page.
Academic Services
- Organizer: ACM RecSys Challenge 2017, 2018 (advisory role), 2019, MediaEval 2018,
- Reviewer: SIGIR, CIKM, AAAI, ACM MM, RECSYS, ECML-PKDD, ECIR, IDC, IPMU
- PC Member: ECIR 2019, RecSysChallenge @ RecSys 2017, 2018, MediaEval 2018
news
| Oct 12, 2018 | Our US PATENT application titled "Enhanced content-based multimedia recommendation method" has been just accepted! See publication page. |
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| 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 HONOUR! (Italian: con lode, highest possible PhD grade in italian evaluation system.) |
| 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! |