Valerio Carruba is an Italian astrophysicist based in Brazil and an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at "Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), campus of Guaratinguetá. He earned a degree in Physics from Sapienza University of Rome in 1997 and a PhD in Astronomy from Cornell University in 2004. His research focuses on applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in dynamical astronomy. Carruba has contributed extensively to the study of the main asteroid belt and computational methods in dynamical astronomy. An asteroid, (10741) Valeriocarruba, was named in his honor, and he received the international CELMEC prize for Innovative computational methods in Dynamical Astronomy. He is the main editors of the book "Machine Learning for Small Bodies in the Solar System" from Elsevier. He is a CNPq productivity fellow and an active referee for major journals and international research programs in planetary science.