Alessandro Soccol

I am a Master’s student in Applied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cagliari, where I also serve as a Research Assistant under Prof. Ludovico Boratto, Dr. Mirko Marras, and Dr. Giacomo Medda. My research focuses on Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing .

I have authored four research papers, including two published in top-tier international conferences, and have supervised one Bachelor’s student for their thesis project. I am also part of the Excellence Program, an honors track reserved for only two top-performing MSc students, and an Lead the Future (LTF) Mentee, a selective mentorship program for outstanding students with an acceptance rate of around 10%. I've also been recognized by Forbes as one of the top 100 graduate students in Italy.

[PhD] I'm currently seeking a PhD position starting in Fall 2026, with a focus on Natural Language Processing. Feel free to reach out if you have any opportunities or suggestions!

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papers
[Conference][RecSys '24] KGGLM: A Generative Language Model for Generalizable Knowledge Graph Representation Learning in Recommendation
[Conference] [CIKM '25] hopwise: Recbole extension with focus on Knowledge Graphs (KGs) and interpretability/explainability.
[Conference] [IIR '25] Effective and Transparent Course Recommendation through Causal Reasoning with Language Models
[Conference] [WAILS '25] Low-Resource Course Recommendation for Professional Training Associations
[Journal] [Under Review] Explainable Course Recommendation with Knowledge Graphs: A Comparative Audit of Diverse Modeling Paradigms