Francesco Barile (F.)

I am an Assistant Professor in Explainable Recommender Systems at Maastricht University in the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS). I am also a member of the Explainable AI (XAI) research theme. I obtained my PhD in 2018 at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.

My research interests include Explaniable AI, Recommender Systems, Group Recommender Systems, Group Decision-Support Systems, Machine Learning and Intelligent User Interfaces. My current research activities focuses on group modeling, explainable group recommender systems, and multi-stakeholders recommenders. More specifically, I am supervising Cedric Waterschoot, working on modeling group factors impacting the group decision-making process, and designing explanations for group recommendations, exploring Large Language Models (LLMs) for enhancing the interactions between a group and decision-support system. Furthermore, I am daily supervisor of two Ph.D. students: Roan Schellingerhout, working on explainable graph neural networks-based job recommenders, and Dina Zilbershtein, working on solutions to produce fair and transparent advertisement recommentations in the context of video-on-demand platforms.