Associate Editor for IEEE TKDE and ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Distinguished Reviewer for ACM TORS; Guest Editor for TORS special issues on Trustworthy RecSys (2024) and Generative RecSys (2025)
Area Chair at CIKM and Senior Program Committee member at SIGIR, CIKM, ECAI, TheWebConf
Co-organizing ROEGEN workshop @ ACM RecSys 2024 on Risks & Opportunities of Generative Models
Leading a multidisciplinary effort for the forthcoming book 'Recommendation with Generative Models' (2025)
Background
Senior Researcher & Associate Professor in Computer Science at Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
Research focuses on trustworthy and responsible AI in recommender systems
Particularly emphasizes Generative AI and multi-agent large language models (LLMs)
Works on understanding, categorizing, and mitigating emerging risks such as hallucinations, biases, reasoning errors, content safety, adversarial resilience, and goal misalignment
Advances holistic evaluation frameworks for generative recommender systems
Also explores multimodal learning, Fashion AI, and recommender systems in the music industry