Meet Matteo Paz, the student who used AI to find 1.5 million possible astronomical objects hidden in Nasa telescope data |
PC: California Institute of Technology Matteo Paz, a senior at Pasadena High School, has flagged around 1.5 million previously uncatalogued objects in space using an artificial intelligence model he built himself. Working under the mentorship of Caltech astronomer Davy Kirkpatrick during a summer research placement, Paz applied his system to data gathered by Nasa’s NEOWISE…
