Do you believe that neural nets could replace these kind of kalman like estimators for spatio-temporal processes? What do you gain? What do you lose? Do you think that implementing a neural net to perform a kalman like solution is easier on the user than implementing a statistical package (e.g., STAN, R-INLA, etc.)? Do you think that the claimed interpretability of these traditional models outweighs the impact of using a neural network instead? Will the neural network produce better estimates since it is theoretically capable of estimating any function? Are you looking for collaborators? Do you have a github repo?