Aviad Levis 

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Computing + Mathematical Sciences at Caltech.

I work on computational inverse problems relating to imaging black holes as a member of Katie Bouman's research group and the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

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My research focuses on developing new computational tools for scientific discovery. My work is interdisciplinary blending physical models with optimization, signal processing, and artificial intelligence.

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I received my Ph.D. (direct track) from the EE department at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Yoav Schechner. Thesis: Volumetric Imaging of the Natural Environment. My research thesis into cloud tomography paved the way to a novel space mission CloudCT, led by Yoav Schechner, Ilan Koren, and Klaus Schilling, and set to launch in 2023. The mission of 10 coordinated nano-satellites will enable "seeing into the clouds"  in 3D (more details) with the goal of studying cloud physics to improve climate models.

 

 

 

 

 

During my Ph.D. I interned at the Google Research Machine Perception team in Tel Aviv, Israel (2018) and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Aerosols and Clouds group in California, USA (2015).

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I am supported by the Zuckerman STEM and Technion Viterbi postdoctoral fellowships.