Francesco Ricci

Francesco Ricci is a senior professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (UNIBZ), Italy, and serves on the UNIBZ Competence Center on Sustainability and the Steering Committee of DIGHUM at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology). His research focuses on AI-based Recommender Systems to enhance human-AI collaboration and decision-making processes in both group and individual contexts.

His core research areas include Recommender Systems and Human-AI Collaboration, with specific applications in news consumption and location-based decision scenarios like tourism. He investigates how AI techniques support users in selecting information and physical spaces, emphasizing the interplay between automated suggestions and human agency.

Professor Ricci contributes to interdisciplinary initiatives through the UNIBZ Competence Center on Sustainability and DIGHUM at TU Wien, where he helps bridge computational methods with sustainability goals and digital humanities research.