PAOLO VIAPPIANI

Assistant Professor at Aalborg University

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I am currently an assistant professor at Aalborg University.

Between 2008 and 2010 I had a postdoctoral position at the University of Toronto where I was working with Craig Boutilier on topics of utility elicitation, decision making under uncertainty and optimization; in the fall of 2010, I was at the University of Regina for short postdoctoral stint. I hold a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (obtained in 2007). Prior to that, I obtained a laurea in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

My interests are within the following areas: recommender systems, constraint and planning systems, personal agents, preferences and user modeling, intelligent interfaces, machine learning, adaptive systems. You can download my full CV (updated summer 2011) or look at my research page.

current research interests

I am currently investigating preference reasoning and elicitation for automatic tools like personal agents or recommender systems. In our opinion, preference-elicitation should be open-ended allowing a diversity of modalites to acquire user models and target recommendations. Users should be allowed to state preferences in a way that is natural and convenient to them. At the same time, AI systems need to optimize their actions reasoning with a partial model of the user preferences or utility function. These topics are elaborated in my research statement.