Workshops & Events

Prof. Stilo has organized and co-organized numerous international workshops, tutorials, and events at premier AI and data mining conferences.

WIPE-OUT 2026: 2nd Workshop on Machine Unlearning and Privacy Preservation

WIPE-OUT 2026 at ECML-PKDD 2026, September 7, 2026, Naples, Italy. Focusing on Machine Unlearning for privacy, bias mitigation, and regulatory comp...

Unraveling Graph Counterfactual Explainability: from Theoretical Foundations to Technical Mastery (ECML-PKDD 2025)

Half-day tutorial at ECML-PKDD 2025 on Graph Counterfactual Explainability, covering theory and hands-on practice with GRETEL.

WIPE-OUT 2025: Workshop on Machine Unlearning Techniques

First edition of the WIPE-OUT workshop on Innovations, Privacy-preservation, and Evaluations Of machine Unlearning Techniques at ECML-PKDD 2025, Se...

Machine Unlearning: Theory, Methods, and Evaluations with Hands-On Insights (ESSAI 2025)

PhD course on Machine Unlearning at the 3rd European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI 2025), June 30 - July 4, 2025.

DELTA 2024: Discovering Drift Phenomena in Evolving Landscape

Workshop on drift detection and data streams at KDD 2024, August 26, 2024, Barcelona, Spain.

Graphs Counterfactual Explainability: A Comprehensive Landscape (AAAI 2024 Tutorial)

Tutorial at AAAI 2024 covering Graph Counterfactual Explanation foundations, taxonomy, evaluation, and the GRETEL framework.

Digging into the Landscape of Graphs Counterfactual Explainability (AAAI 2024 Lab)

Hands-on laboratory at AAAI 2024 on developing and evaluating Graph Counterfactual Explanation methods using the GRETEL framework.

Invited Talk: Graphs' Counterfactual Explainability Landscape (XAI.it 2023)

Invited talk at the 4th Italian Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI.it 2023), co-located with AIxIA 2023, November 8, 2023.

BIAS 2023: Fourth International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation

Fourth edition of the BIAS workshop at the 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023), April 2, 2023.

GRETEL Demo: Developing and Evaluating Graph Counterfactual Explanations (WSDM 2023)

Demo presentation of the GRETEL framework for Graph Counterfactual Explanation at WSDM 2023, March 2, 2023.

BIAS 2022: Third International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation

Third edition of the BIAS workshop at the 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2022), April 10, 2022.

BIAS 2021: Second International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation

Second edition of the BIAS workshop at the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021), April 1, 2021.

Tutorial: Student Dropout Prediction in Online Courses (CIKM 2020)

Tutorial on challenges and solutions to the student dropout prediction problem in online courses at CIKM 2020, October 19-20, 2020.

BIAS 2020: International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation

Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation at the 42nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2020), April 14, 2020.

SoMePeAS: Third Workshop on Social Media for Personalization and Search (ECIR 2019)

Third edition of the SoMePeAS workshop at ECIR 2019, April 14, 2019.

SIR: Workshop on Social Interaction-based Recommendation (CIKM 2018)

Workshop on Social Interaction-based Recommendation at CIKM 2018, October 22, 2018.

SoAPS: Workshop on Social Aspects in Personalization and Search (ECIR 2018)

Workshop on Social Aspects in Personalization and Search at ECIR 2018, March 26, 2018.

SERecSys: Second Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems (ICDM 2017)

Second edition of the SERecSys workshop at ICDM 2017, November 18, 2017.

SoMePeAS: Workshop on Social Media for Personalization and Search (ECIR 2017)

Workshop on Social Media for Personalization and Search at ECIR 2017, April 9, 2017.

SERecSys: Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems (ICDM 2016)

Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems at ICDM 2016, December 12, 2016.

Workshop Series

2025--2026

WIPE-OUT @ ECML-PKDD

Workshop on Innovations, Privacy-preservation, and Evaluations Of machine Unlearning Techniques. Focusing on selective data removal from AI models for privacy, bias mitigation, and regulatory compliance.

2024

DELTA @ KDD

Workshop on Discovering Drift Phenomena in Evolving Data Landscapes at KDD 2024. Covering drift detection, data streams, and adaptive machine learning.

2020--2023

BIAS @ ECIR

International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation, co-located with ECIR. Four successful editions addressing fairness, transparency, and social impacts of search and recommendation systems.

2017--2019

SoMePeAS / SoAPS @ ECIR

Workshops on Social Media for Personalization and Search, and Social Aspects in Personalization and Search. Three editions exploring social signals for improved personalization and information retrieval.

2018

SIR @ CIKM

Workshop on Social Interaction-based Recommendation at CIKM 2018. Extending the classic notion of social recommendation by leveraging diverse social interaction data.

2016--2017

SERecSys @ ICDM

Workshop on Semantics-Enabled Recommender Systems. Two editions at ICDM exploring semantic knowledge to enrich recommendation processes.

Tutorials, Courses & Invited Talks

  • 2025

    Tutorial: Unraveling Graph Counterfactual Explainability

    ECML-PKDD 2025, Porto, Portugal

  • 2025

    PhD Course: Machine Unlearning -- Theory, Methods, and Evaluations

    ESSAI 2025, European Summer School on AI

  • 2024

    Invited Talk: Bias, Fairness, and Explainability: Building Trust in AI Systems

    Technical University of Munich (TUM)

  • 2024

    Tutorial: Graphs Counterfactual Explainability -- A Comprehensive Landscape

    AAAI 2024, Vancouver, Canada

  • 2024

    Lab: Digging into the Landscape of Graphs Counterfactual Explainability

    AAAI 2024, Vancouver, Canada

  • 2023

    Invited Talk: Graphs' Counterfactual Explainability Landscape

    XAI.it 2023 (co-located with AIxIA 2023), Rome, Italy

  • 2023

    Demo: GRETEL -- Graph Counterfactual Explanation Framework

    WSDM 2023

  • 2023

    Invited Talk: Uncovering Gender Bias in Academia

    AI-GAP 2023, L'Aquila, Italy

  • 2020

    Tutorial: Challenges and Solutions to Student Dropout Prediction in Online Courses

    CIKM 2020, Galway

  • 2020

    CLAIRE AI COVID-19 Initiative Presentation

    Euro DIG 2020, The Hague