Alessandro Piscopo
Alessandro Piscopo is a Lead Data Scientist at BBC, Product Group. His team develops recommendation engines across the organisation and has deployed recommenders on products such as BBC Sounds, BBC World Service, and BBC iPlayer. Alessandro’s research interests lie at the intersection of information retrieval, collaborative knowledge engineering, data quality, and responsible AI. He received his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2019.
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Essays and Scholarship
Recommenders With Values: Developing recommendation engines in a public service organization
An inside look at how the BBC develops its recommendation systems
By Alessandro Piscopo , Anna McGovern , Lianne Kerlin , North Kuras , James Fletcher , Calum Wiggins & Megan Stamper