About

Francesco Ricci is a retired computer science professor of the Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Previously, he was Senior Researcher and the Technical Director of the E-commerce and Tourism Research Laboratory (eCTRL), ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy. His research interests include recommender schemes, user modelling, machine learning, and ICT applications to travel and tourism. The main objective of his research is understanding how algorithmic AI and recommender systems influence human behaviour and to design and develop new types of such systems that can better serve the information and communication needs of the users. He is the author of more than 200 refereed publications and he is Co-Editor of the Recommender System Handbook (Springer 2022).