A. Bellogin, L. Boratto, F. Cena, A.G. Cossatin, T. Huibers, S. Kleanthous, E. Lex, M. Landoni, F.M. Malloci, M. Marras, N. Mauro, E. Murgia, M.S. Pera
Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2026
University of Turin, Department of Computer Science, Italy
Mar–Jun 2025
Visiting Researcher
University of Copenhagen — Copenhagen, Denmark
Research visit hosted by Prof. Maria Maistro. Focus on fairness evaluation in recommender systems.
Nov 2022–Mar 2026
PhD Researcher in Computer Science
University of Turin, Department of Computer Science, Italy
Thesis: Intelligent Systems for Good.
Supervisors: Liliana Ardissono, Noemi Mauro.
Graduated with Honors.
Jul 2021–Oct 2022
Research Fellow
University of Turin, Department of Computer Science
Development of a web application presenting multi-disciplinary thematic trails connected
to culturally significant places. Use of ontologies and NLP for extraction, understanding, and semantic access to textual data.
Research Projects
2024–2025
SmartScholars
University of Turin - funded by Fondazione CRT
VR-based peer-tutoring research project. Role: research and software development.
2023–present
SPACES
University of Turin - funded by Fondazione CRT
Adaptive support for participation in groups and activities for adults with high-functioning
autism spectrum disorder. Role: research on group formation approaches.
2021–present
Triangolazioni
University of Turin
Web application visualising semantic interconnections between points of interest for
cultural heritage exploration. Role: researcher and software engineer.
Teaching
Courses
2026
Lecturer — Machine Learning
University of Turin, SUISS
Undergraduate-level course on machine learning.
2023–2025
Lecturer — "Recommender Systems and Personalized User Experience"
PhD Programme in Computer Science, University of Turin
Annual 3-hour lecture on Neural Networks in Recommender Systems.
2023–2024
Guest Lecture — Databases (PostgreSQL)
University of Turin, Department of Computer Science
Hands-on 2-hour lecture on PostgreSQL usage.
2023–2026
High School Orientation Activity
University of Turin, Department of Computer Science
Annual 2-hour workshop: Building a Recommender System with Python.
2019–2025
Subject Matter Expert — Programming III
University of Turin, Department of Computer Science
Student Support
2025–present
Student Collaborator — Fundamentals of Computer Science (Art. 76)
University of Turin, Department of Computer Science
Exam assistance.
2023–present
Student Collaborator — Programming III & Databases (Art. 76)
University of Turin, Department of Computer Science
Exam assistance and student support.
2019–2020
Tutoring for Students with Disabilities or Learning Disorders
University of Turin, Department of Computer Science
Note-taking and study support for Algorithms & Data Structures, Formal Languages, and HCI courses.
Thesis Co-supervision (Bachelor's, L31 - UniTo)
2025
Co-supervisor — 7 Bachelor's Theses
University of Turin, Department of Computer Science
Topics included: VR peer-tutoring, MLP-based matchmaking algorithms for peer-to-peer
tutoring, activity recommendation with clustering and neural methods, and
Points-of-Interest recommendation web applications.
Service & Awards
Conference Organisation
2027
Accessibility & Inclusion Chair
IUI 2027 — ACM Intelligent User Interfaces
2026
Workshop Co-organiser
UMAP4Good @ UMAP 2026 RecSoGood @ RecSys 2026
2025
Proceedings Chair
IIR 2025 — 16th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
2025
Session Chair & Workshop Co-organiser
IR4U2 2025 — Workshop on IR for Understudied Users @ SIGIR 2025
Student Volunteering
2023–2025
Student Volunteer
ACM RecSys 2025 ACM UMAP 2024 ACM UMAP 2023
Awards & Grants
"Pietro Torasso" Prize for the Best Master's Thesis in Artificial Intelligence —
Ethics and Environmental Sustainability in Recommender Systems.
