Welcome to my personal website 

Highlights (more details in News and Talks):

• [26/06/2025]  We got three papers accepted at ICCV! I feel so lucky to have great colleagues!

• [14/05/2025]  Submit your paper at TerraBytes, our ICML workshop, with PMLR proceedings.

• [12/05/2025]  I was acknowledged as outstanding reviewer for CVPR 2025. Thanks!

• [05/05/2025] I released three new pre-prints, about diffusion models (COP-GEN-Beta, SatDiFuser) and parameter efficient fine-tuning (DEFLECT). 

• [22/04/2025] on EarthDay, we released TerraMind. Read the news and the pre-print. We will release the benchmarking code in PANGAEA very soon!

• [15/04/2025] We are the winners of Embed2Scale Challenge! Great effort from the KTH and Friends team!

• [15/01/2025] I just joined the  ESA Φ-lab. I just started my new position as an Internal Research Fellowship.

• [06/12/2024] We just released the preprint of Pangaea, a curated open-source codebase and dataset, to benchmark Geospatial Foundation Models.
  Check it out the pre-print and the GitHub!

Short Bio (more details in Resume):

• Research Fellow at ESA Φ-lab (2025-)

• Postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven, in the Geomatics Research Group, led by prof. Maarten Vergauwen (2024)

• Postdoctoral researcher at CNAM - Cedric Lab - Vertigo Team (Paris), for the MAGE project, led by prof. Nicolas Audebert (2023-2024)

• PhD Student in Data Science (XXXV cycle) at Sapienza University of Rome – Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering "Antonio Ruberti" (2019-2023) - Advisor: Simone Scardapane - Co-advisor: Mattia Crespi

• Postgraduate Master (2M) in Big Data at Sapienza University of Rome (2019)

• MSt in Environmental Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome (2016-2018)

• BSt in Environmental Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome (2013-2016)

Contacts:

• Mail: valerio.marsocci@esa.int

• Office:  ESA Φ-lab (Building 12),  ESA-ESRIN, Frascati (RM), Italy