Alessandro Piscopo is a lead data scientist in the BBC’s Product Group. His team, Datalab, develops recommendation engines across the organization and has so far deployed live recommenders on products such as BBC Sounds, BBC World Service, and the BBC News app. His research interests lie in the area at the intersection of peer-production communities, collaborative knowledge engineering, data quality, and responsible AI. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southampton in 2019.