PUBLICATIONS

HelioPhysics

2025

CIPHER: Scalable Time Series Analysis for Physical Sciences with Application to Solar Wind Phenomena - Neurips 2025, Paper Arxiv

Uncovering Solar Wind Phenomena with iSAX, HDBSCAN, Human-in-the-loop and PSP Observations - Neurips 2025, AGU 2025, Paper Arxiv

Scalable Machine Learning Analysis of Parker Solar Probe Solar Wind Data - Neurips 2025, Paper Arxiv

Corona-Fields: Leveraging Foundation Models for Classification of Solar Wind Phenomena - Paper Arxiv,  AAAI Workshop

FOXES: A Framework For Operational X-ray Emission Synthesis - Neurips 2025, AGU 2025, Paper Arxiv

Forecasting the Ionosphere from Sparse GNSS Data with Temporal-Fusion Transformers - Neurips 2025, Paper Arxiv

Image calibration between the Extreme Ultraviolet Imagers on Solar Orbiter and the Solar Dynamics Observatory, Astronomy & Astrophysics - Paper Arxiv

Data-Driven Solar Surface Flux Transport Modeling with Uncertainty Quantification - Neurips 2025

Estimating high resolution photospheric flows using an AI surface flux transport model - AGU 2025

An AI-powered Surface Flux Transport model to measure high-resolution velocity fields and forecast magnetic flux emergence - AGU 2025

Parker Solar Probe Machine Learning Ready Dataset - AGU 2025

Masked Autoencoders and Neural Fields for Solar Wind Structure Classification from SDO Observations - AGU 2025

Understanding the relationships of PSP Solar Wind Parameters with Distributed Computation using Dask and Deep Learning techniques - AGU 2025
Solar Wind Structure Decipher Clustering Using iSAX-pipeline Composed of iSAX Compression, and HDBSCAN - AGU 2025

SDO-ML Video Foundation Model with Neural Fields and its application to Solar Wind Structure classification -  AGU 2025

IonCast: a Deep Learning Framework for Forecasting Ionospheric Dynamics - Neurips 2025, AGU 2025

Connecting the Dots: a Machine Learning Ready Dataset for Ionospheric Forecasting Models - Neurips 2025, AGU 2025

Reasoning With a Star: A Heliophysics Dataset and Benchmark for Agentic Scientific Reasoning - Neurips 2025

An Agentic Orchestration System for Heliophysics Tasks - Neurips 2025


2024

Instrument-To-Instrument translation: Instrumental advances drive restoration of solar observation series via deep learning - Nature Communications DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1021940/v1

Improving Thermospheric Density Predictions in Low-Earth Orbit With Machine Learning - AGU Space Weather Volume 22, Issue 2
DOI 10.1029/2023SW003652

SDO-FM is building a foundation model (FM) using Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) data, Software for the NASA Science Mission Directorate Workshop 2024

Instrument-to-Instrument translation: An AI tool to intercalibrate, enhance and super-resolve solar observations, EGU General Assembly 2024 
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15813

Instrument to Instrument (ITI) Translation, NASA AI Conference 2024

Spectral Irradiance of the 3D Sun on Mars, European Space Weather Week 2024 (FDL-X Heliolab 2024)

ITI: An Instrument-to-Instrument translation tool for Heliophysics and Earth science, AGU 2024

How Heliolab’s commitment to Open Science is creating a critical mass of new AI capabilities - AGU 2024

Deep Learning image burst stacking to reconstruct high-resolution ground-based solar observations, 17th European Solar Physics Meeting ESPM-17

Machine learning discovery of cost-efficient dry cooler designs for concentrated solar power plants - paper, Nature Journal
DOI 10.1038/s41598-024-67346-6

SuNeRF: 3D Reconstruction of the Solar EUV Corona Using Neural Radiance Fields - Astrophysical Journal Letters (FDL USA 2022),
DOI 10.3847/2041-8213/ad12d2, Arxiv 2401.16388

Physically Motivated Deep Learning to Superresolve and Cross Calibrate Solar Magnetograms - The Astrophysical Journal, DOI 10.3847/1538-4365/ad12c2

Virtual EVE: a Deep Learning Model for Solar Irradiance Prediction - Paper Arxiv 2408.17430v1

Multiscale Geoeffectiveness Forecasting using SHEATH and DAGGER - Poster, Astronomical Society of India 2024

New Insights into Coronal Physics from EUV and UV Spectroscopy - AGU 2024

MEGS-AI an AI model to estimate the full EUV spectrum using AIA images - AGU 2024

Prediction of Solar Transient Events Using Machine Learning - AGU 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for scientific discovery in solar wind and Earth interaction - AGU 2024

2023
A Scientific Cloud Computing Platform for Ingestion and Processing of SDO Data - 4th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium (FDL-X 2023)

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enhance the Science Return of 4𝛑 Solar Constellations - Paper, Bulletin of the AAS Vol 55, Issue 3 2023 (FDL-X 2022) DOI: 10.3847/25c2cfeb.aa5f09f6

AIA is All You Need: SDO MEGS A&B virtualization via Convolutional Deep Learning - 4th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium (FDL-X 2023)

A Novel Synthesis of SDO EVE MEGS A&B Spectral Irradiance Data through Convolutional Deep Learning - AGU 2023 (FDL-X 2023)

A Scientific Cloud Computing Platform for Ingestion and Processing of SDO Data - DASH 2023 (FDL-X 2023)

Virtual EVE: a Deep Learning Model for Solar Irradiance Prediction - NeurIPS 2023 (FDL-X 2023)

AI Inference Products, Foundation Models and multi-domain approaches to NASA Heliophysics - 4th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium (FDL-X Helio)

Multiscale Geoeffectiveness Forecasting using SHEATH and DAGGER- 4th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium (FDL-X 2023)

Improving thermospheric drag modeling with EUV images: an FDL-X 2023 project - 4th Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium (FDL-X 2023)

High-Cadence Thermospheric Density Estimation enabled by Machine Learning on Solar Imagery - NeurIPS 2023 (FDL-X 2023)

Karman - a Machine Learning Software Package for Benchmarking Thermospheric Density Models - AMOS 2023 (FDL-X 2023)

A Federated Distributed Learning Benchmark for Solar Wind Speed Forecasting Using Solar EUV Images - Space Weather Workshop 2023 (FDLUSA 2022)

2022

Global Geomagnetic Perturbation Forecasting Using Deep Learning - AGU Space Weather Volume 20, Issue 6 DOI 10.1029/2022SW003045 Arxiv 2205.12734v1

2021

Modeling and forecasting ground geomagnetic perturbations using deep learning on spherical harmonics - COSPAR2021 Machine Learning for Space Sciences (You Tube Link)  (FDL USA 2020)

Multichannel autocalibration for the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly using machine learning - Astronomy & Astrophysics Journal (FDL USA 2019)
DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202040051 Arxiv 2012.14023v4

Auto-Calibration and High-Fidelity Virtual Observations of Remote Sensing Solar Telescopes with Deep Learning - JPL AI and Data Science Workshop 2021 (FDL USA 2019) [I]

Correlation of Auroral Dynamics and GNSS Scintillation with an Autoencoder - JPL AI and Data Science Workshop 2021 (FDL USA 2019) [I]

Autonomous deep-space missions: can deep learning be used to optimize data transmission - COSPAR 2021 (FDL USA 2019)

Automating the Calibration of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly - COSPAR 2021 (FDL USA 2019)

Forecasting Ground Magnetic Perturbation Using Deep Learning on Spherical Harmonics - American Meteorological Society 101th annual meeting 2021 (FDL USA 2020)

2020

Multi-Channel Auto-Calibration for the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly using Machine Learning - Paper at AGU 2020 (FDL USA 2019)

Determining new representations of “Geoeffectiveness” using deep learning - AGU 2020 (FDL USA 2020)

Multi-Channel Auto-Calibration for the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument with Deep Learning- AGU 2020 (FDL USA 2019)

RotNet: Fast and Scalable Estimation of StellarRotation Periods Using Convolutional NeuralNetworks - NeurIPS 2020 ML4PS (Physical Sciences) Workshop (FDL USA 2020)

Global Earth Magnetic Field Modeling and Forecasting with Spherical Harmonics Decomposition - NeurIPS 2020 ML4PS (Physical Sciences) Workshop  (FDL USA 2020)

2019

Using U-Nets to create high-fidelity virtual observations of the solar corona - NeurIPS Workshop 2019 (FDL USA 2019)
Arxiv 1911.04006v1

A deep-learning based approach for predicting high latitude ionospheric scintillations using geospace data and auroral imagery - JPL NASA Abstract (FDL USA 2019)

Auto-Calibration of Remote Sensing Solar Telescopes with Deep Learning- NeurIPS Workshop 2019 (FDL USA 2019) Arxiv 1911.04008v1

Single-Frame Super-Resolution of Solar Magnetograms: Investigating Physics-Based Metrics & Losses - NeurIPS Workshop 2019 (FDL USA 2019)
Arxiv 1911.01490v1

Correlation of Auroral Dynamics and GNSS Scintillation with an Autoencoder - NeurIPS Workshop 2019 (FDL USA 2019)
Arxiv 1910.03085v1

Prediction of GNSS Phase Scintillations: A Machine Learning Approach - NeurIPS Workshop 2019 (FDL USA 2019)
Arxiv 1910.01570v1

A deep learning Approach to forecast Tomorrow's Solar Wind Parameters- AGU 2019 (FDL USA 2019)

Enhancing the Predictability of GNSS Scintillations - AGU 2019 (FDL USA 2019) [I]

Auto-calibration and reconstruction of SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly channels with Deep Learning- AGU 2019 (FDL USA 2019)

A deep learning virtual instrument for monitoring extreme UV solar spectral irradiance - Science Advances 2019 (FDL USA 2018)
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aaw6548

A machine learning dataset prepared for NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory- Astrophysical Journal 2019 (FDL USA 2018)
DOI 10.3847/1538-4365/ab1005 Arxiv 1903.04538v1

EARTH OBSERVATION

2025

SHRUG-FM:Reliability-Aware Foundation Models for Earth Observation - Neurips 2025, arXiv

Towards Methane Detection Onboard Satellites - Neurips 2025, arXiv

Global 3D Reconstruction of Clouds & Tropical Cyclones - Neurips 2025, arXiv


2024

3D Cloud reconstruction through geospatially-aware Masked Autoencoders - arXiv

3D-SAR Tomography and Machine Learning for High-Resolution Tree Height Estimation - arXiv

Tomographic SAR Reconstruction for Forest Height Estimation - arXiv 

Tree Species Classification using Machine Learning and 3D Tomographic SAR - a case study in Northern Europe - AGU 2024, arXiv

Rapid Adaptation of Earth Observation Foundation Models for Segmentation - arXiv

Uncertainty and Generalizability in Foundation Models for Earth Observation - arXiv 

Remote Sensing Segmentation with Foundation Models (on a Budget) - AGU 2024

Enhancing Satellite Data Interpretation through Soft Prompting in Embedding Space with Pre-trained Large Language Model - AGU 2024

Multi-Sensor Predictions of 3D Cloud Profiles using Machine Learning - AGU 2024

2023

M3LEO: A Multi-Modal, Multi-Label Earth Observation Dataset Integrating Interferometric SAR and Multispectral Data - Neurips, arXiv - (FDL Europe 2023)

FloodBrain: Flood Disaster Reporting by Web-based Retrieval Augmented Generation with an LLM - Neurips 2023, arXiv

Fewshot learning on global multimodal embeddings for earth observation tasks - Neurips 2023, arXiv 

Large Scale Masked Autoencoding for Reducing Label Requirements on SAR Data - Neurips 2023, arXiv

Exploring Generalisability of Self-Distillation with No Labels for SAR-Based Vegetation Prediction - Neurips 2023, arXiv

Exploring DINO: Emergent Properties and Limitations for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery - Neurips 2023, arXiv 

Self-supervised learning for SAR; benchmarking datasets and performance on diverse downstream tasks - AGU 2023

2022

Multi-spectral multi-image super-resolution of Sentinel-2 with radiometric consistency losses and its effect on building delineation - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (November 2022)

Identifying causes of Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) - Neurips 2022/ DOI

Pyrocast: A Machine Learning Pipeline to Forecast Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) clouds - Neurips 2022/ DOI


2021
HyperspectralViTs: General Hyperspectral Models for On-board Remote Sensing - Vít Růžička’s Phd extending the work of STARCOP with Oxford’s Andrew Markham.(FDL Europe 2021)

AI for the Developing World, Self-supervised Learning Theory & Practice - NeurIPS 2021 (FDL Europe 2021)

2019

Cumulo: A Dataset for Learning Cloud Classes - JPL NASA Abstract (FDL Europe 2019)

The Link of Tropical Convection and Low Cloud Cover- NeurIPS (FDL Europe 2019)

Classifying without Supervision but with Distributional Constraints- NeurIPS - (FDL Europe 2019)

Cumulo: A Dataset for Learning Cloud Classes - NeurIPS (FDL Europe 2019) Received best paper award review here

Flood Detection on low cost orbital Software - NeurIPS (FDL Europe 2019)

2018

Multi3Net: Segmenting Flooded Buildings via Fusion of Multiresolution, Multisensor, and Multitemporal Satellite Imagery- NeurIPS & AAAI  (FDL Europe 2018)

Rapid Computer Vision-Aided Disaster Response via Fusion of Multiresolution, Multisensor, and Multitemporal Satellite Imagery - NeurIPS  (FDL Europe 2018)

UNICEF-ESA-FDL - AI to automate disaster impact assessment - Concept Note - UNICEF (FDL Europe 2018)

Mapping Informal Settlements in Developing Countries with Multi-resolution, Multi-spectral Data - NeurIPS & AAAI (FDL Europe 2018)

Mapping Informal Settlements in Developing Countries using Machine Learning and Low Resolution Multi-spectral Data - AAAI/ACM Conference (FDL Europe 2018)

Generating Material Maps to Map Informal Settlements- NeurIPS & AAAI arXiv (FDL Europe 2018) 

Mapping Informal Settlements in Developing Countries with Multi-resolution, Multi-spectral Data- NeurIPS & AAAI arXiv - (FDL Europe 2018)

Mapping Informal Settlements in Developing Countries using Machine Learning and Low Resolution Multi-spectral Data- AIES 19 (FDL Europe 2018)

Earth Science

SAR-based landslide classification pretraining leads to better segmentation- NeurIPS 2022 (FDL 2022) - ArXiv

Deep Learning for Rapid Landslide Detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Datacubes - NeurIPS 2022 (FDL 2022) - ArXiv

Deep learning based landslide density estimation on SAR data for rapid response (FDL 2022) - ArXiv

Short-term Prediction of Severe Thunderstorm Hazards with Machine Learning and the Geostationary Lightning Mapper- American Meteorological Society Conference 2020 (FDL USA 2020)

Machine Learning for Generalizable Prediction of Flood Susceptibility- NeurIPS Workshop 2019 / DeepAI (FDL USA 2019)

Leveraging Lightning with Convolutional Recurrent AutoEncoder and ROCKET for Severe Weather Detection- NeurIPS 2020 - AI for Earth Science and AI for Earth Science Workshop (FDL USA 2020)

Dynamic Hydrology Maps from Satellite-LiDAR Fusion - NeurIPS 2020 - AI for Earth Science Workshop - Video (FDL USA 2020)

Knowledge Discovery Framework: Deep Learning Applications for Remote Sensing - AGU 2020 (FDL USA 2020)

Severe Weather Prediction Using Lightning Data- COSPAR 2021 (FDL USA 2020)

Severe Weather Prediction Using Lightning Data- NeurIPS Workshop 2020 - LatinX in AI (FDL USA 2020)

Severe Weather Prediction Using Lightning Data - NVIDIA GTC21 - Accepted (FDL USA 2020)

Where Are the Earth's Streams Flowing Right Now? Dynamic Hydrology Maps from Satellite-Lidar Fusion - NVIDIA GTC21 - Submitted (FDL USA 2020)

Water monitoring with Very High Resolution satellite imagery - EGU'21 - Submitted (FDL USA 2020)

Physics-informed GANs for Coastal Flood Visualization - Under Review (FDL USA 2020)

Physically-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks for Coastal Flood Visualization - IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems - in review (FDL USA 2020)

Detecting Spatiotemporal Lightning Patterns: An Unsupervised Graph-Based Approach - ML4PS - (FDL USA 2021) - Submitted

Artificial Intelligence for the Advancement of Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration - Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032 (FDL USA 2021)

Coastal Digital Twin: Learning a fast and physics-informed surrogate model for coastal floods via neural operators - AGU 2021 - (FDL USA 2021) - Submitted

Generating informative and accurate descriptions of natural hazards and phenomena using large transformer-based models - AGU 2021 (FDL USA 2021) - Submitted

ML Process

Planetary Science

2024

Automated Discovery of Anomalous Features in Ultralarge Planetary Remote-Sensing Datasets Using Variational Autoencoders - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing Volume 17

Absolute Localization Through Orbital Maps and Surface Perspective Imagery - 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (FDL USA 2018)

Unsupervised learning for thermal anomaly detection on the lunar surface - NeurIPS Workshop 2019 (FDL USA 2019)

Absolute Localisation for surface robotics in GPS denied locations using a Neural Network - IEEE Xplore 2019 (FDL USA 2019)

Unsupervised learning for thermal anomaly detection on the lunar surface- 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference - 2020 (FDL USA 2019)

Unsupervised learning for thermal anomaly detection on the lunar surface - The Planetary Science Journal 2020 (FDL USA 2019)

Unsupervised Distribution Learning for Lunar Anomaly Detection- NeurIPS 2019 (FDL USA 2019)

Absolute Localisation for surface robotics in GPS denied locations using a Neural Network- JPL AI and Data Science 2021 Workshop (FDL USA 2018)

Low-Light Image Enhancement of Permanently Shadowed Lunar Regions with Physics-Based Machine Learning - University of Luxembourg Library / CVPR conference - NVIDIA GTC21 - Accepted (FDL USA 2020)

Low-light image enhancement of permanently shadowed lunar regions with physics-based machine learning - University of Luxembourg Library (FDL USA 2020)

A Big Data and AI-Driven Approach for Anomaly Detection on the Lunar Surface - Lunar and Planetary Institute (FDL USA 2020)

Peering into lunar permanently shadowed regions with deep learning- Nature Communications (FDL USA 2020)

Mission Operations

Spacecraft Collision Risk Assessment with Probabilistic Programming- Neurips 2020 - AI for Earth Science (FDL Europe - 2020)

Towards Automated Satellite Conjunction Management with Bayesian Deep Learning - Neurips 2020 - ML4PhysicalSciences (FDL Europe 2020)

RainBench: Towards Global Precipitation Forecasting from Satellite Imagery - AAAI 2020, top-5 conference in CS (FDL Europe 2020)

Towards Data-Driven Physics-Informed Global Precipitation Forecasting from Satellite Imagery - Neurips 2020- Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (FDL Europe 2020)

RainBench: Enabling Data-Driven Precipitation Forecasting on a Global Scale- Neurips 2020 - Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (FDL Europe 2020)

Tracking Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Transitions Using Machine Learning - AGU 2020 (FDL Europe 2020)

Astronaut Heath

Foundational Architecture Enabling Federated Learning for Training Space Biomedical Machine Learning Models between the International Space Station and Earth - bioRxiv, 19 Jan 2025 doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.14.633017 (FDL USA 2021)

Analyzing the relationship between gene expression and phenotype in space-flown mice using a causal inference machine learning ensemble - Scientific Reports, 18 Jan 2025 doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81394-y (FDL USA 2020)

Prototyping CRISP: A Causal Relation and Inference Search Platform applied to Colorectal Cancer Data - IEEE LifeTech 2021 / NASA HRP IWS 2021 (FDL USA 2020) - research paper award winners for IEEE Lifetech 2021

Generative Models for Synthesizing Symptomatic ECG Astronaut Health Data for Future Deep Space Missions - JPL Data Science & AI Workshop 2021 (FDL USA 2020)

A Generative Machine Learning Framework for Synthesizing Symptomatic ECG Astronaut Health Data- NASA HRP Workshop 2021 (FDL USA 2020)

Advancing Space Science with Machine Learning: Frontier Development Lab Projects with NASA- Nvidia GTC21- Accepted (FDL USA 2019, FDL USA 2019, FDL USA 2020)

Learning Invariant Representations for non-i.i.dFederated Settings - NeurIPS 2021 (FDL USA 2021)

Federated causal inference for out-of-distribution generalization in predicting physiological effects of radiation exposure - AGU 2021 (FDL USA 2021)

Invariant Risk Minimisation for Cross-Organism Inference: Substituting Mouse Data for Human Data in Human Risk Factor Discovery- ArXiv (FDL USA 2021)