News & Highlights

Hannah Collier has been awarded a Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship and will join the group in Summer 2026. Hannah will work on computer vision and 3D reconstruction methods for solar observations and heliophysics.

Two papers BHCast: Unlocking Black Hole Plasma Dynamics from a Single Blurry Image with Long-Term Forecasting and Dynamic Black-hole Emission Tomography with Physics-informed Neural Fields have been accepted to CVPR 2026. Congratulations to Renbo Tu and David Bromley!

Rohan Dahale received two awards from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration: the Outstanding PhD Thesis Award — for showing that M87’s ring ellipticity is governed by turbulent plasma dynamics and for establishing the validation framework that underpins the first robust videos of SgrA* — and the EHT Early-Career Award 2025 — for his work on investigating the origin of the ring ellipticity in the black hole images of M87*. Congratulations, Rohan!

Aviad Levis received $400K award from the CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) and Ontario Research Fund (ORF-RI) to lead a research program in Physics-constrained neural fields for scientific imaging. Read more from U of T: 55 U of T scholars receive research infrastructure support.

Supported by the Data Sciences Institute, Aviad Levis is co-leading Bridging the Gap: From Computational Physics, to Physics-informed Machine Learning, to Data-driven Scientific Discovery. The DSI Emerging Program unites four co-leads and 16 members across nine departments to connect first-principles simulations with data-driven discovery for high-impact domains—from sustainable design to astrophysics.

Rohan Dahale and Kevin McKinnon were selected for the 2025 cohort of the Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship. Their fellowships kick off this September, supporting bold AI-driven approaches to scientific discovery.

Aviad Levis received the 2024–25 Connaught New Researcher Award, supporting high-impact directions in physics-informed vision and imaging.

David Bromley was awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) for 2025–2026, recognizing his outstanding research contributions.

Ontario’s Research Fund is investing $2M in Aviad Levis and collaborators to develop new physics-informed imaging methods that demystify black holes. Learn more in the CS department feature, “$2M from Ontario Research Fund to help scientists demystify black holes.”

U of T highlighted Aviad Levis in “In awarding Nobel Prize, committee cites collaborative black hole research including U of T computer scientist Aviad Levis,” recognizing his Event Horizon Telescope contributions to the discoveries celebrated by the Nobel Committee.

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada awarded Aviad Levis an NSERC Discovery Grant to launch his research program in scientific imaging and physics-informed computation.