Current position

PhD student at University College Cork (UCC) 🇮🇪 Supervisor: Derek Bridge.

Past positions

• Intern at Deezer research 🇫🇷 Supervisors: Elena Epure and Romain Hennequin.
• M.Sc. student in Computer Science and Engineering in Politecnico di Milano 🇮🇹 Thesis supervisor: Paolo Cremonesi.

Interests

• Recommender systems;
• Music information retrieval.

Recognition

• Won the best paper award ‘21 within the school of computer science in UCC;
• Won the James Chen best student paper award at UMAP ‘21;
• Served in the program commitee of 2nd Workshop on NLP for Music and Spoken Audio (NLP4MuSA ‘21), co-located with ISMIR ‘21;
• Ranked 10$^{th}$ in the RecSys Challenge 2019 (575 teams participating).

Selected publications

• Giovanni Gabbolini and Derek Bridge. 2022. A User-Centered Investigation of Personal Music Tours. In RecSys;

• Giovanni Gabbolini and Derek Bridge. 2021. Generating Interesting Song-to-Song Segues With Dave. In UMAP;

• Giovanni Gabbolini and Derek Bridge. 2021. An Interpretable Music Similarity Measure Based on Path Interestingness. In ISMIR.

Full publications record: click.

Projects

• Explainability of music playlists: Click;
• Recommender systems and instability: Click.

Browse all my research projects here.

News

28/06/2022: Paper accepted at RecSys ‘22: A User-Centered Investigation of Personal Music Tours.

22/02/2022: Won the best paper award ‘21 within the school of computer science in UCC.

31/07/2021: Journal paper accepted in the JIIS: Analyzing and Improving Stability of Matrix Factorization for Recommender Systems.

22/09/2021: I will join Deezer research in Paris for a research intership, where I will work under Elena Epure and Romain Hennequin on playlist captioning.

31/07/2021: Paper accepted as a LBR at RecSys ‘21: Play It Again, Sam! Recommending Familiar Music in Fresh Ways.

10/07/2021: Paper accepted at ISMIR ‘21: An Interpretable Music Similarity Measure Based on Path Interestingness.

23/06/2021: Won the James Chen best student paper award at UMAP ‘21.

13/06/2021: My research has made its radio debut on BCC Radio 6. Listen back.

01/06/2021: Paper accepted at UMAP ‘21: Generating Interesting Song-to-Song Segues With Dave.

21/11/2020: Paper accepted at SAC: On the instability of embeddings for recommender systems: the case of Matrix Factorization.

05/09/2019: Paper accepted at the RecSys Challenge Workshop: Leveraging laziness, Browsing-Pattern Aware Stacked Models for Sequential Accommodation Learning to Rank.