Expertise: Recommender systems, semantic web and linked data, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval

Data Scientist @ From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Phd Student in Computer Science & Engineering @ The research conducted during my PhD focused on the application of Machine Learning and Data Mining techniques to build semantic-aware Recommendation Systems using Linked Open Data. Besides semantic-aware recommendations, I also worked on techniques for improving recommendation diversity, on context-aware recommendations and on similarity metrics and kernels in graphs. From January 2012 to April 2015 (3 years 4 months) Data Scientist Intern @ Working on Playlist Recommendations From June 2013 to August 2013 (3 months) Visiting Student @ From November 2012 to November 2012 (1 month) software engineer (internship) @ Development of a customizable Recommender System Engine for E-Commerce From April 2011 to November 2011 (8 months) software developer @ Development of a crawler for business information From September 2010 to December 2010 (4 months) software developer @ Analysis and implementation of an hotel management software From November 2008 to February 2009 (4 months)

Master Degree, Computer Engineering (Information systems and networks), 110 cum laude @ Politecnico di Bari From 2009 to 2011 Bachelor degree, Computer Engineering @ Politecnico di Bari From 2006 to 2009 Perito Tecnico Informatico, Informatica, Elettronica @ I.T.I.S. L. Dell'Erba From 2001 to 2006 Vito Ostuni is skilled in: Java, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Linked Data, Data Mining, Weka, MongoDB, SVM, Information Retrieval, MapReduce, JSP, Python, C++, Hadoop