Francesco Fabbri is a research scientist with a decade of experience applying representation learning, graph-based models and generative AI to large-scale personalization and recommender systems. Currently at Spotify, he builds representation and generative models to power personalized experiences, drawing on prior leadership in responsible AI and GNN research at Eurecat and a PhD in Computer Science from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His background spans industry and academia—including privacy-preserving federated solutions at Huawei and fairness-focused work at the University of Helsinki—reflecting a strong blend of theory and production-minded engineering. Based in Barcelona, he combines deep statistical training with hands-on deployment experience, and has a track record of securing competitive research roles and grants across European projects.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Excellent Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Excellent Cum Laude at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Laurea Magistrale LM, Data science, Laurea Magistrale LM, Data science at Sapienza Università di Roma
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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