A team of students from Politecnico di Milano, coordinated by Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, researcher at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, has won for the third consecutive year the award for Best Academic Team at the RecSys Challenge 2025. The team is composed of Simone Colecchia, Mauro Orazio Drago, Jihad Founoun, Paolo Gennaro, Ernesto Natuzzi, Luca Pagano, Sajjad Shaffaf, and Giuseppe Vitello.
The RecSys Challenge 2025 took place over the course of three months, with the final stage held in Prague from September 22 to 26, 2025, as part of the 19th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. It was organized by Synerise, a Polish company developing an artificial intelligence platform for behavioral data analysis, in collaboration with Maastricht University, Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam, Technical University of Denmark, University of Bari Aldo Moro, and Politecnico di Bari.
The competition brought together about 400 teams from leading institutions and companies, including Université Paris-Saclay, Johannes Kepler University, East China Normal University, Yandex, Sber AI Lab, NTT DOCOMO, Mitsubishi Research Institute, and Match Group.