Levi Harris

Badwater, CA. It is not raining.

👋 Hello! I am an incoming Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northeastern University, advised by Auroop Ganguly, and I am fortunate to be supported by an Alsaif Fellowship. Currently my work concerns remote observations of precipitation—their flaws and their applications. My research questions are fairly simple:

Did it rain?
- Identifying and quantifying sources of uncertainty in rainfall retrievals, particularly those developed for ground radar networks.
Will it rain (soon)?
- Nowcasting precipitation with machine learning in physically challenging settings (e.g., extremes).

An overarching interest of mine is the question of if, and if so, how, machine learning techniques can help create new knowledge of the Earth system. If you have any answers (or if you just want to chat (:) send me an email using the mail icon below!

news

Nov 16, 2025	Our paper won the NeurIPS 2025 Weather4Cast challenge… see you in San Deigo!

selected publications

NeurIPS Workshop

A Space-Time Transformer for Precipitation Nowcasting

Levi Harris, and Tianlong Chen

2025

Awarded Bib PDF Video Code

First Place 🏆 NeurIPS 2025 Weather4Cast Cumulative Precipitation Challenge

@misc{harris2025spacetimetransformerprecipitationforecasting,
  title = {A Space-Time Transformer for Precipitation Nowcasting},
  author = {Harris, Levi and Chen, Tianlong},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2511.11090},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.CV},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11090},
}