News Archive

November 2025

[People] We are pleased to welcome Xiaoze Chen, who has started a 1.5-year research visit in our group. His work focuses on hybrid flood modelling.
[Events] Shijie Jiang and Georgios Blougouras gave a keynote presentation at GIS Day 2025 "GeoAI for environment" at Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

October 2025

[Publication] We are pleased to share that our new study led by Shengyue Chen has been published in Geophysical Research Letters. Using an interpretable machine learning approach, we examine broad patterns in how terrestrial and riverine productivity vary across different environmental conditions. Diverse Environmental Factors Shape Patterns of Terrestrial and Riverine Productivity Decoupling

September 2025

[Event] Our group contributed to organizing the ELLIS Summer School “AI for Earth and Climate Sciences“, held in Jena from September 1–5, 2025. The summer school brought together PhD and MSc students as well as postdocs interested in the interface between machine learning and the geosciences.

July 2025

[Event] Shijie Jiang attended the ISMC–GEWEX SoilWat Meeting at the University of Reading. He gave a talk and chaired the session The Soil–Plant–Hydraulic–Energetic Continuum.

[Publication] Congratulations to Lijun Wang on the publication of a new paper in the Journal of Hydrology, introducing a Transformer-based model that improves soil moisture prediction under previously unobserved conditions. A self-supervised deep learning model for enhanced generalization in soil moisture prediction

June 2025

[People] Lu Tian joined the group as a postdoctoral researcher.
[Events] Shijie Jiang gave an invited talk titled Learning Earth Systems with AI: From Observations to Prediction at the Nucleus Jena – Vergangene Veranstaltungen series.

May 2025

[Events] Georgios Blougouras, Jialiang Zhou, Lijun Wang, Shengyue Chen, Chao Wang, and Shijie Jiang presented their work at EGU25 in Vienna. Shijie also convened and chaired the session Explainable and hybrid machine learning in hydrology and Earth system sciences.

November 2024

[People] We welcomed two new members, Chao Wang and Yao Li.
[Events] The group participated in the 9th Long Night of Science in Jena at the ELLIS Unit Jena booth, sharing how AI is used to understand climate change.

September 2024

[People] Jialiang Zhou joined the group as a PhD student. Shengyue Chen also joined for a one-year research visit.

August 2024

[Events] Shijie Jiang, Lijun Wang, and Feini Huang presented their work at the AI and Data Science for Earth System Sciences workshop at ELLIS Unit Jena.

July 2024

[Publication] A new paper by Shijie Jiang, together with colleagues from ELLIS Unit Jena and beyond, was published in Earth’s Future, discussing how interpretable machine learning can support process understanding in geosciences.
How Interpretable Machine Learning Can Benefit Process Understanding in the Geosciences

April 2024

[Events] Georgios Blougouras, Feini Huang, and Shijie Jiang presented at EGU24 in Vienna. Shijie also convened and chaired the session Explainable and Hybrid Machine Learning in Hydrology.

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