- “Reproducibility and Artifact Consistency of the SIGIR 2022 Recommender Systems Papers Based on Message Passing”, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2025.
- “A Troubling Analysis of Reproducibility and Progress in Recommender Systems Research”, ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 2021.
- “Are we really making much progress? A worrying analysis of recent neural recommendation approaches”, RecSys 2019 (Best Long Paper Award).
- “Movie Genome: Alleviating New Item Cold Start in Movie Recommendation”, UMUAI 2019.
Awards:
- Best Long Paper Award at RecSys 2019 for “Are we really making much progress? A worrying analysis of recent neural recommendation approaches”
- “Prof. Florian Daniel” Award, Best doctoral thesis in Computer Science Engineering, DEIB, Politecnico di Milano
- First Prize on the Academic Track at the ACM RecSys Challenge, sponsored by Synerise at the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2025)
- Best Academic Team at the ACM RecSys Challenge, sponsored by Ekstra Bladet at the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024)
- Best Academic Team at the ACM RecSys Challenge, sponsored by ShareChat at the 17th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2023)
- Best Academic Team at the ACM RecSys Challenge, sponsored by Twitter at the 15th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2021)
- 2nd place at the Creative Track of the ACM RecSys Challenge (4th place overall), sponsored by Spotify at the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018), team Creamy Fireflies
- Best Reviewer, 31st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2022)
- Nomination for Best reviewer at RecSys 2020 and RecSys 2019
Research Experience
Conducts research in the field of machine learning and quantum computing at Politecnico di Milano; designs and evaluates algorithms for recommender systems; participates in multiple recommender system challenges.
Education
Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Italy (specific degree and advisor information not provided)
Background
Trained as a computer science engineer, I work at the intersection of machine learning and quantum computing as an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano, where I am a member of the RecSys group and the Quantum Computing Lab.
Miscellany
Personal interests and other information not explicitly provided