Valerio Carruba

Prof. Valerio Carruba is currently an Associate Professor at the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil. He is one of the founders of the Machine Learning applied to Small Bodies (MASB) research group. His recent interests involve the use ofdeep learning for the identification of asteroids in secular resonant configurations and machine learning applied for asteroid families’ identification. Asteroid 10741 has been named “Valeriocarruba” by the International Astronomical Union. His paper “Optimization of artificial neural networks models applied to the identification of images of asteroids’ resonant arguments” recently won the CELMEC prize for "Innovative computational methods in Dynamical Astronomy".