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Differentiable physics enables computing gradients through the entire sensing pipeline — from the imaging system to the physical processes that generate the observations, including light–matter interactions, scene dynamics, and even the curvature of space-time.

Revealing Fine Structure in Protoplanetary Disks with Physics Constrained Neural Fields
arXiv 2025 Levis, Luong et al.
Neural Dynamic Modes: Computational Imaging of Dynamical Systems from Sparse Observations
arXiv 2025 SaraerToosi, Tu et al.
Revealing the 3D Cosmic Web through Gravitationally Constrained Neural Fields
ICLR 2025 Zhao, Levis et al.
Exoplanet Imaging via Differentiable Rendering
IEEE Trans. on Comp. Imaging 2025 Feng et al.
Orbital Polarimetric Tomography of a Flare Near the Sagittarius A* Supermassive Black Hole
Nature Astronomy 2024 Levis et al.
Single View Refractive Index Tomography with Neural Fields
Proc. IEEE/CVF CVPR 2024 Zhao, Levis et al.
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Date Title First Authors Venue
Sep 2025 Revealing Fine Structure in Protoplanetary Disks with Physics Constrained Neural Fields
Aviad Levis, Nhan Luong, Richard Teague, Katherine Bouman, Marcelo Barraza-Alfaro, Kevin Flaherty
Levis, Luong et al. arXiv
Jul 2025 Neural Dynamic Modes: Computational Imaging of Dynamical Systems from Sparse Observations
Ali SaraerToosi, Renbo Tu, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, Aviad Levis
SaraerToosi, Tu et al. arXiv
Apr 2025 Revealing the 3D Cosmic Web through Gravitationally Constrained Neural Fields
Brandon Zhao, Aviad Levis, Liam Connor, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Katherine L. Bouman
Zhao, Levis et al. ICLR
Jan 2025 Exoplanet Imaging via Differentiable Rendering
Brandon Y. Feng, Rodrigo Ferrer-Chávez, Aviad Levis, Jason J. Wang, Katherine L. Bouman, William T. Freeman
Feng et al. IEEE Trans. on Comp. Imaging
Jun 2024 Orbital Polarimetric Tomography of a Flare Near the Sagittarius A* Supermassive Black Hole
Aviad Levis, Andrew A. Chael, Katherine L. Bouman, Maciek Wielgus, Pratul P. Srinivasan
Levis et al. Nature Astronomy
June 2024 Single View Refractive Index Tomography with Neural Fields
Brandon Zhao, Aviad Levis, Liam Connor, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Katherine L. Bouman
Zhao, Levis et al. Proc. IEEE/CVF CVPR
2023 Retrieving 3D distributions of atmospheric particles using Atmospheric Tomography with 3D Radiative Transfer – Part 1: Model description and Jacobian calculation
Jesse Loveridge, Aviad Levis, Larry Di Girolamo, Vadim Holodovsky, Linda Forster, Anthony B. Davis, Yoav Y. Schechner
Loveridge, Levis et al. Atm. Meas. Tech.
2023 Retrieving 3D distributions of atmospheric particles using Atmospheric Tomography with 3D Radiative Transfer – Part 2: Local optimization
Jesse Loveridge, Aviad Levis, Larry Di Girolamo, Vadim Holodovsky, Linda Forster, Anthony B. Davis, Yoav Y. Schechner
Loveridge, Levis et al. Atm. Meas. Tech.
Mar 2022 Gravitationally Lensed Black Hole Emission Tomography
Aviad Levis, Pratul P. Srinivasan, Andrew A. Chael, Ren Ng, Katherine L. Bouman
Levis et al. CVPR
2020 Multi-View Polarimetric Scattering Cloud Tomography and Retrieval of Droplet Size
Aviad Levis, Yoav Y. Schechner, Anthony B. Davis, Jesse Loveridge
Levis et al. Remote Sensing
2017 Multiple-Scattering Microphysics Tomography
Aviad Levis, Yoav Y. Schechner, Anthony B. Davis
Levis et al. Proc. IEEE CVPR
2015 Airborne Three-Dimensional Cloud Tomography
Aviad Levis, Yoav Y. Schechner, Amit Aides, Anthony B. Davis
Levis et al. Proc. IEEE ICCV