Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema is an Assistant Professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. His primary research areas are Quantum Computing and Recommender Systems. In relation to Quantum Computing, he studies its synergies with Machine Learning, with the dual aim of using Quantum Computing to accelerate computation and optimization tasks, as well as using Machine Learning to support current Quantum Computing technologies. Regarding Recommender Systems, he is interested in the development of new algorithms, with particular attention to the evaluation methodology and the reproducibility of published results. In 2020 he received a PhD Cum Laude in Information Technology from Politecnico di Milano, with a thesis titled “An assessment of reproducibility and methodological issues in neural recommender systems research”. He was also awarded the “Prof. Florian Daniel” Award for the best doctoral thesis in Computer Science Engineering at DEIB. In 2019 he was awarded the Best ACM Long Paper Award for the paper “Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches”.
Since 2014 he worked as lab tutor and teaching assistant for various courses at Bachelor and Master level. In 2020 he was lecturer for the PhD course “Applied Quantum Machine Learning”. Since 2014 he has worked as an expert in quality assurance of higher education institutions and was involved in more than 30 accreditation visits for the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University system and Research (ANVUR) and for the QUACING agency for EUR-ACE accreditation of engineering courses. He was member of the 2020-2022 ANVUR commission for the evaluation of the proposals to establish new italian universities. He was also involved in some international evaluations of european universities as well as Horizon2020 and Erasmus+ projects with the agencies NVAO (Netherlands), AQU Catalunya (Catalonia), KAA (Kosovo) and THEQC (Türkiye).
He is a member of the international experts register of the accreditation agencies of Latvia, Kosovo, Georgia, Türkiye and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
From 2011 to 2014 he was a member of various university’s commissions involved in quality assurance processes.
Since 2014 he worked as lab tutor and teaching assistant for various courses at Bachelor and Master level. In 2020 he was lecturer for the PhD course “Applied Quantum Machine Learning”. Since 2014 he has worked as an expert in quality assurance of higher education institutions and was involved in more than 30 accreditation visits for the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University system and Research (ANVUR) and for the QUACING agency for EUR-ACE accreditation of engineering courses. He was member of the 2020-2022 ANVUR commission for the evaluation of the proposals to establish new italian universities. He was also involved in some international evaluations of european universities as well as Horizon2020 and Erasmus+ projects with the agencies NVAO (Netherlands), AQU Catalunya (Catalonia), KAA (Kosovo) and THEQC (Türkiye).
He is a member of the international experts register of the accreditation agencies of Latvia, Kosovo, Georgia, Türkiye and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
From 2011 to 2014 he was a member of various university’s commissions involved in quality assurance processes.
