Aviad Levis is an assistant professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto.
He is an associated faculty member at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics. His research focuses on scientific computational imaging and AI for science. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Computing and Mathematics at Caltech, supported by the Zuckerman and Viterbi postdoctoral fellowships, working with Katie Bouman on imaging the galactic center black hole as part of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. He received his Ph.D. (2020) from the Technion and B.Sc. (2013) from Ben-Gurion University. His Ph.D. thesis into tomography of clouds has paved the way for an ERC-funded space mission (CloudCT) led by his Ph.D. advisor Yoav Schechner.