Nils Lehmann
I am currently a PhD Student at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), supervised by Prof. Jonathan Bamber and Prof. Xiaoxiang Zhu, specializing in generative modeling and uncertainty quantification for Earth observation applications. I have experience in processing terabyte-scale satellite datasets, developing foundation models for remote sensing, and creating machine learning-ready Earth system data products. More broadly my interests lie in generative modeling for Earth Observational data and building data-driven systems to tackle hard and relevant EO problems that benefit society. I am also very passionate about open-source software and a maintainer of TorchGeo and author of Lighting-UQ-Box. In a past life, I played NCAA Division II basketball.
news
| Feb 12, 2026 | New preprint of an idea we have been working on: EO-VAE as a multi sensor tokenizer for Earth observation data: arxiv, code |
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| Sep 28, 2025 | I feel very fortunate to have the chance to visit Ando Shah and Prof. John Chuang at UC Berkeley - School of Information for a research stay |
research I have contributed to
- GEO-Bench: Toward Foundation Models for Earth MonitoringIn Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
- SSL4EO-L: Datasets and Foundation Models for Landsat ImageryIn Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
- Lightning UQ Box: Uncertainty Quantification for Neural NetworksJournal of Machine Learning Research, 2025
- Panopticon: Advancing Any-Sensor Foundation Models for Earth ObservationIn Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, Jun 2025
- The Missing Piece: Standardising for AI-ready Earth Observation DatasetsIn TerraBytes - ICML 2025 workshop, Jun 2025