Johannes

Dr. Johannes Jakubik

Activities

Johannes has been a Ph.D. student at the Applied AI in Services Lab at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He is now serving as a postdoctoral researcher at IBM Research Europe. His research interests include:

  •  Applied deep learning
  •  Foundation models
  •  Data-centric AI
  •  Uncertainty quantification

Curriculum Vitae

Johannes is a postdoctoral researcher within the AI for Climate Impact Team at IBM Research. Throughout his Ph.D., he mainly focused on applied deep learning and data-centric AI and served as a visiting researcher at IBM Research. He has a background in applied machine learning, having worked on a variety of topics at IBM, KIT, and ETH Zurich, and during internships in industry. Currently, his focus is on pretraining and finetuning geospatial foundation models in collaboration with NASA. 

Media and Honors

Research projects in which Johannes is involved have been covered by international media, such as Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Reuters, CNBC, and national media, such as Spektrum der Wissenschaft. Together with a team of co-authors, Johannes has received the best full paper award at HHAI'23 and got nominated for the best full paper award at WI'23. He was part of the keynote on generative AI for business and climate science at IBM Think on Tour together with IBM VP R&D David Faller. Johannes work was selectively funded by scholarships for international research on AI.

Community Service

Johannes frequently reviews for top conferences (incl. NeurIPS, ECML, AAAI) and top journals (incl. JAIR, Omega). He served as track chair at IEEE IGARSS’23.

Publications

Johannes has co-published 5+ journal papers (including top outlets, e.g., Production and Operations Management and the European Journal on Operational Research) and 10+ conference papers (including top conferences like NeurIPS, AAAI, ICWSM, and IEEE IGARSS).

Please find a full list of publications Johannes has co-authored on Google Scholar.