About me
I am an assistant professor at Polytechnic University of Bari (Politecnico di Bari), Italy, affiliated with the Information Systems Laboratory (SisInf Lab), led by Prof. Tommaso di Noia, the head of the group. My research focuses on (i) designing multimodal information-seeking systems (recommender systems, interactive QA and conversational systems), and (ii) designing and evaluating machine learning models to understand their robustness, fairness, generalizability, and interpretability. Recent and ongoing projects consider multimedia recommendation systems, multimodal conversational information-seeking, fairness and biases in recommender systems, adversarial machine learning for the security of recommender systems, and federated learning to maintain user privacy in recommendation learning. Consider our recent surveys CSURa and CSURb to become familar with these topics!
I defended my Ph.D. dissertation, with "con lode" (highest distinction in Italy) in July 2018! I have received two bachelor's degrees one a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Guilan, and the other a B.A. degree in English, Linguistics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. I completed my M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with straight A+ GPA (First Rank) at the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Polytechnic University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano), Italy. During my Ph.D., I was a visiting researcher at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Austria for a period of 6 months.
I am an active member of the recommender systems (RS) community and regularly publish/present tutorials at major venues, such as RecSys, SIGIR, WSDM, ECIR, and top-tier journals such as ACM Computing surveys, UMUAI, TKDE, and TIST. I recently had two surveys accepted at ACM CSUR centered on the topics outlined above. Furthermore, I had the honor to contribute to two book chapters at the 3rd Edition of the RS handbook. I have been involved in organizing ACM Recommender System Challenges as part of the RecSys conference through 2017-2020 (as a chair or advisor). I have also organized two tasks at the MediaEval benchmarking event in 2018 and 2019.
NEW: Tutorial at RecSys21. A brave new tutorial on Privacy of Recommender Systems is accepted to RecSys21!
NEW: "Towards Multimodal Coversational Information Seeking (MMCIS)" accepted to SIGIR'21 is now available online. In this key research, we highlight the importance of moving towards developing and evaluating MMCIS systems, and provide a formal framework for it. https://bit.ly/3w7Gxks
NEW: Our work "Explaining recommender systems fairness and accuracy through the lens of data characteristics " is accepted to the journal of IP&M! https://bit.ly/3yJWQVU
NEW: AdveRSe 2021 "The International Workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning for Recommendation and Search" is accepted to CIKM 2021.
NEW: "A Flexible Framework for Evaluating User and Item Fairness in Recommender Systems" accepted to UMUAI, the main journal for personalization research, is now online! It extends our RMSE@RecSys'19 paper in several dimensions: large-scale experiment, theoretical support and extensive literature review! https://lnkd.in/dZB8t-y
NEW: The comprehensive survey on "A Survey on Adversarial Recommender Systems: from Attack/Defense Strategies to Generative Adversarial Networks" accepted to ACM Computing Surveys is available. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3439729
NEW: The comprehensive survey on "Multimedia Recommender Systems" accepted to ACM Computing Surveys is available. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3407190
Current Research Topics
- Recommender systems and personalization (RecSys)
- Multimedia Recommender Systems (MM-RecSys)
- Multimodal Conversational Information Seeking (MM-CIS)
- Fairness in Recommender Systems (Fair-RecSys)
- Advarsarial Machine Learning in Recommender Systems (Security-RecSys)
- Federated and Privacy-Aware Recommender Systems (Privacy-RecSys)
Seleted Publications
- (MM-CIS) Yashar Deldjoo, Johanne R. Trippas, Hamed Zamani. "Toward Multi-modal Conversational Information Seeking (MMCIS).", SIGIR 2021.
- (Security-RecSys) Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso di Noia, Daniele Malitesta, Felice Antonio Merra. "A Study of Defensive Methods to Protect Visual Recommendation Against Adversarial Manipulation of Images.", SIGIR 2021.
- (Fair-RecSys) Yashar Deldjoo, Vito Walter Anelli, Hamed Zamani, Alejandro Bellogin, Tommaso Di Noia. "A Flexible Framework for Evaluating User and Item Fairness in Recommender Systems", UMUAI 2020.
- (Security-RecSys) Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra. "A Survey on Adversarial Recommender Systems: from Attack/Defense Strategies to Generative Adversarial Networks", ACM Computing Surveys 2021.
- (MM-RecSys) Yashar Deldjoo, Markus Schedl, Paolo Cremonesi, Gabriella Pasi. "Recommender Systems Leveraging Multimedia Content.", ACM Computing Surveys 2020.
- (Security-RecSys) Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Felice Antonio Merra. "How Dataset Characteristics Affect the Robustness of Collaborative Recommendation Models", SIGIR 2020.
- (MM-RecSys) Yashar Deldjoo, Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Mihai Gabriel Constantin, Hamid Eghbal-Zadeh, Stefano Cereda, Markus Schedl, Bogdan Ionescu, Paolo Cremonesi. "Movie Genome: Alleviating New Item Cold Start in Movie Recommendation", UMUAI 2019.
- (MM-RecSys) Yashar Deldjoo, Mihai Gabriel Constantin, Hamid Eghbal-zadeh, Markus Schedl, Bogdan Ionescu, Paolo Cremonesi."Audio-Visual Encoding of Multimedia Content to Enhance Movie Recommendations", RecSys 2018.
- (Privacy-RecSys) Vito Walter Anelli, Yashar Deldjoo, Tommaso Di Noia, Antonio Ferrara, Fedelucio Narducci. "How to Put Users in Control of their Data in Federated Top-N Recommendation with Learning to Rank", ACM SAC 2021.
Academic Services
- Organizer: Italian Workshop on Information Retrieval 2021 (IIR'21) ACM RecSys Challenge 2019 (session-based hotel recommendation/Trivago), ACM RecSys Challenge 2017 (Job Recommendation/Xing), MediaEval 2019 (MovieRec and NEWSReel), MediaEval 2018 (MovieRec)
- PC Member (regularly since 2019): ACM RecSys, SIGIR, ACM Multimedia, ECIR, UMAP, MMSys
- Journal Reviewer: ACM Computing Surveys, UMUAI, TOIS, Frontiers, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Access
news
May-2021 The AdveRSe2021 workshop on Adversarial Machine Learning for Recommendation and Search accepted to CIKM!April-2021 Two papers accepted to SIGIR'21, one Perspective and one Full!April-2021 One paper accepted to the CVPR'21 Workshop on Computer Vision for Fashion, Art, and Design!April-2021 One paper accepted to the Italian Conf. On Cyber-Security (ITASEC'21)!March-2021 One paper accepted to FLAIR'21, on Multi-Step Adversarial Perturbations against Recommender Systems!Dec-2020 Two papers accepted to ECIR'21, a full paper and a tutroial!Nov-2020 The second literature review in 2020 is accepted to ACM Computing Surveys, this time on AML-RecSys!Nov-2020 Our paper on privacy-by-design recommendation learning using federated learning accepted to ACM SAC'21!July-2020 Honored to contribute two book chapters on the new edition of RS handbook. Topics include MMRS and AML for security of RS.!July-2020 Our paper on recommender systems fairness evaluation is accepted to UMUAI!July-2020 Our tutorial on adversarial machine learning in RecSys is accepted to RecSys'20.July-2020 Our paper session-based hotel recommendations dataset done in collobration with Trivago is accepted at ACM TIST.July-2020 Our paper federated learning is accepted to Italian journal of Intelligenza Artificiale.June-2020 Our comprehensive literature review about recommender systems leveraging multimedia content is accepted to ACM Computing Surveys.May-2020 Our literature review on adversarial machine learning in recommender systems has a preprint version.Jan-2020 One full paper accepted to SIGIR 2020.Dec-2019 One full paper accepted to ESWC 2020.Oct-2019 Our tutorial on adversarial machine learning in RecSys accepted to WSDM'20.Oct-2019 A US patent accepted.July-2019 Our paper on federated learning accepted to AIIA'19.Jan-2019 Our paper accepted to UMUAI.