Jekyll2026-09-10T06:50:16+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/feed.xmlFrancisco MenaFrancisco Mena's academic portfolioFrancisco Menamena@gfz.deConference Participation2026-06-12T00:00:00+00:002026-06-12T00:00:00+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/posts/2026/06/blog-post-1I participated in the HAICON event in Munich, Germany. I presented a poster in my current work in temporal-incremental continual learning for forest disturbance monitoring with AlphaEarth embeddings.

]]>Francisco Menamena@gfz.dePhD Thesis Defended2026-05-11T00:00:00+00:002026-05-11T00:00:00+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/posts/2026/05/blog-post-1I sucessfully defended my PhD Thesis in Multi-view Learning for Earth Observation Applications with Missing Views at the University of Kaiserlautern-Landau. I worked under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Dengel and mentored by Diego Arenas.

You can take a look at my thesis here: KLUEDO link

]]>Francisco Menamena@gfz.deConference Participation2025-12-20T00:00:00+00:002025-12-20T00:00:00+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/posts/2025/12/blog-post-1I presented a poster at the REO workshop in the first EurIPS event in Copenhagen, Denmark :dk:.

]]>Francisco Menamena@gfz.deNew Position2025-10-01T00:00:00+00:002025-10-01T00:00:00+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/posts/2025/10/blog-post-1I joined GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam (Germany) to work at the GLM group in AI applied to forestry monitoring with remote sensing data. I’ll work under the guidance of Martin Herold and Simon Besnard.

]]>Francisco Menamena@gfz.deConference Participation2025-08-15T00:00:00+00:002025-08-15T00:00:00+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/posts/2025/08/blog-post-1I presented two papers (oral and poster) at IGARSS in Brisbane, Australia :au:. I also presented two co-authors papers from a collegue at DFKI (Miro Miranda).

]]>Francisco Menamena@gfz.deResearch Visit2025-01-30T00:00:00+00:002025-01-30T00:00:00+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/posts/2025/01/blog-post-1I did a research stay at Inria in Montpellier :fr: with the EVERGREEN team ☘️ . I worked under the guidance of Dino Ienco, Roberto Interdonato, and Cassio F. Dantas.

]]>Francisco Menamena@gfz.deTeaching Activities2024-12-30T00:00:00+00:002024-12-30T00:00:00+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/posts/2024/12/blog-post-1I gave a lecture about Machine Learning for Earth Observation (ML4EO) in the Applications of Machine Learning and Data Science course at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau.

]]>Francisco Menamena@gfz.deConference Participation2024-09-30T00:00:00+00:002024-09-30T00:00:00+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/posts/2024/09/blog-post-1I presented a paper (oral presentation) at ECML-PKDD workshop MACLEAN in Vilnius, Lithuana.

]]>Francisco Menamena@gfz.deConference Participation2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:002024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/posts/2024/07/blog-post-1I presented two papers (oral presentations) at IGARSS in Athens, Greece :gr:.

]]>Francisco Menamena@gfz.deConference Participation2024-04-30T00:00:00+00:002024-04-30T00:00:00+00:00https://fmenat.github.io/posts/2024/04/blog-post-1I presented a poster paper at ICLR workshop ML4RS in Vienna, Austria :at:.

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