Nils Lehmann

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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
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

  1. GEO-Bench: Toward Foundation Models for Earth Monitoring
    Alexandre Lacoste*, Nils Lehmann*, Pau Rodriguez, and 14 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
  2. SSL4EO-L: Datasets and Foundation Models for Landsat Imagery
    Adam Stewart, Nils Lehmann, Isaac Corley, and 6 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023
  3. Lightning UQ Box: Uncertainty Quantification for Neural Networks
    Nils Lehmann, Nina Maria Gottschling, Jakob Gawlikowski, and 3 more authors
    Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2025
  4. Panopticon: Advancing Any-Sensor Foundation Models for Earth Observation
    Leonard Waldmann, Ando Shah, Yi Wang, and 6 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, Jun 2025
  5. The Missing Piece: Standardising for AI-ready Earth Observation Datasets
    Cesar Aybar, Julio Contreras, Chen Ma, and 9 more authors
    In TerraBytes - ICML 2025 workshop, Jun 2025