Computing’s Top 30: Valerio Guarrasi

Around the time data scientist was being heralded as “one of the sexiest jobs of the 21st Century,” Valerio Guarrasi realized that it was also a natural intersection of programming, optimization, statistics, and other disciplines that had lit up his undergraduate mind. Soon he was enrolled in one of Italy’s first data science graduate programs—at Sapienza University of Rome—and a vision for his career began taking shape. Today, Guarrasi is an assistant professor at Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome—and one of Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2024. In the following Q&A, Guarrasi describes: How COVID-19’s peak during his PhD program led to his participation in a pivotal project that used AI to predict clinical outcomes in COVID patients The connections between medicine’s standard decision-making process and his thesis on multimodal deep learning methodologies How his Virtual Scanner project’s ability to use generative AI to translate between imaging modalities p ... Read full article.