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Francesca Maridina Malloci is Assistant Professor (RTDa) at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari (Italy).

Her research is driven by the Sustainable Development Goals, and how responsible machine learning and recommender systems can support their achievements. Specifically, focusing on two domains: Agriculture and Education.

She has co-authored numerous papers published in international journals and presented at leading conferences. Francesca has also chaired workshops and tutorials on knowledge discovery at ACM UMAP and ECML-PKDD, on explainable AI at ECIR, and on bias and fairness at SIGIR.

Research Interests: explainable AI; predictive analytics; decision support systems; recommender systems; computer vision; knowledge discovery; information retrieval