A University of Waterloo Alumni Gold Medallist and Teaching Award recipient, he is also an affiliate faculty member with the Water Resources Research Centre (University of Hawaii at Manoa), and an adjunct research professor in the Department of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary and the Conflict Analysis Group at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Levy has over fifteen years of academic and professional experience in the principles, methods, and application of hazard mitigation and emergency management. He currently serves as Director of the Geospatial Technology and Hazard Mitigation Group.