Main Research Interests
- Recommender Systems
- Information Filtering
- Holistic User Modeling
- Distributional Semantics
- Linked Open Data
- Social Media for User Modeling
Short CV
Academic Positions
- APRIL 2024 - Present: Associate Professor at University of Bari. Research focus: Semantic Holistic User Modeling.
- JANUARY 2016 - APRIL 2024: Assistant Professor (Ricercatore a tempo Determinato) at University of Bari. Research focus: Semantic Holistic User Modeling.
- JANUARY 2013 - DECEMBER 2015: Post-doc at University of Bari. Research focus: Semantic context-aware recommender systems based on distributional models.
Education
- JUNE 2012: Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Bari. Thesis: “Enhanced Vector Space Models for Content-based Recommender Systems”
- APRIL 2008: Laurea Degree in Computer Science, University of Bari. Thesis: “Extending a Content-Based recommender system through semantic folskonomies”
Internships
- APRIL 2011: Human Interaction and Experiences research group, Philips Research, Eindhoven (The Netherlands).
Awards
- UMAP 2012: $1000 student grant for conference presentation.
- SSSC 2010: 1st prize award for GeoMusic project.
Teaching
- 2009/10: Corso di Progettazione di Basi di Dati, CdL in Informatica e Tecnologie per la produzione del software
- 2009/10: Corso di Linguaggi di Programmazione + Lab. - CdL in Informatica
Summer Schools
- SSSC 2010: IEEE 2010 Summer School on Semantic Computing - Berkeley (CA, United States), July 25-31, 2010
- ACAI 2009: Advanced Course in Artificial Intelligence ‘09 Intelligent Decision Support Systems (theory, algorithms, and applications) - Belfast (Northern Ireland), August 23-29, 2009
Associations
- AI*IA (Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale)