Papers

57 papers, 42 as first author, 39 published in refereed journals. Grouped by year of arXiv submission. Citation counts are on INSPIRE-HEP and Google Scholar.

1,244citations
791to first-authored papers
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57papers, 42 first-authored

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Year	First-author papers	Co-authored papers	Citations, all	Citations, first-authored
2018	1	1	1	0
2019	4	0	6	3
2020	1	0	15	12
2021	4	0	45	42
2022	2	2	71	51
2023	7	1	157	114
2024	7	1	196	149
2025	7	7	379	223
2026	9	3	374	197

INSPIRE-HEP, 31 Oct 2026. Excludes LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration papers. Papers are dated by arXiv submission.

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2026

The shape of nonlinearity in binary-black-hole dynamics
Tousif Islam
Submitted/arXiv:2610.27164
Searching for lensed gravitational waves with unlensed templates
Digvijay Wadekar, Barak Zackay, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Tousif Islam, Javier Roulet, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Jonathan Mushkin, Miguel Zumalacarregui, Matias Zaldarriaga
Submitted/arXiv:2610.26080
Unified remnant models for aligned-spin, precessing, and eccentric binary black hole mergers
Tousif Islam, Digvijay Wadekar, Gaurav Khanna
Submitted/arXiv:2608.00934
★ Discovery of Interpretable Surrogates via Agentic AI: Application to Gravitational Waves
Tousif Islam, Digvijay Wadekar, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Matias Zaldarriaga, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Javier Roulet, Barak Zackay
Submitted/arXiv:2605.11280
gwBenchmarks: Stress-Testing LLM Agents on High-Precision Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Tousif Islam, Digvijay Wadekar, Zihan Zhou
Submitted/arXiv:2605.11269
Merger remnant and eccentricity dynamics surrogates for eccentric nonspinning black hole binaries
Adhrit Ravichandran, Peter James Nee, Keefe Mitman, Tousif Islam, Scott E. Field, Vijay Varma et al
Phys. Rev. D 114, 084065/arXiv:2605.00124
Including higher-order modes in a quadrupolar eccentric numerical relativity surrogate using universal eccentric modulation functions
Tousif Islam, Adhrit Ravichandran, Peter James Nee, Scott E. Field, Vijay Varma, Harald P. Pfeiffer et al
Phys. Rev. D 114, 044078/arXiv:2604.17868
GW190711_030756 and GW200114_020818: astrophysical interpretation of two asymmetric binary black hole mergers in the IAS catalog
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Digvijay Wadekar, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Javier Roulet, Jonathan Mushkin, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga
Submitted/arXiv:2604.07388
Recoil kicks from binary black hole mergers in GWTC catalogs: implications for retention and hierarchical mergers
Tousif Islam
Submitted/arXiv:2604.04546
Kick matters: The impact of a new recoil model on the retention of hierarchical black-hole remnants in globular clusters
Tousif Islam, Digvijay Wadekar, Konstantinos Kritos
Phys. Rev. D 114, 043041/arXiv:2603.10170
Searching for precessing binary systems with mode-by-mode filtering and marginalization
Zihan Zhou, Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet, Oryna Ivashtenko, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Tousif Islam, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Jonathan Mushkin, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga
Submitted/arXiv:2603.05784
★ Progenitor of the recoiling super-massive black hole RBH-1 identified using HST/JWST imaging
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Digvijay Wadekar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 031404/arXiv:2601.18986

2025

Bayesian analysis of late-time tails in spin-aligned eccentric binary black hole mergers
Tousif Islam, Guglielmo Faggioli and Gaurav Khanna
Phys. Rev. D 113, 124025/arXiv:2511.21898
★ Accurate models for recoil velocity distribution in black hole mergers with comparable to extreme mass-ratios and their astrophysical implications
Tousif Islam, Digvijay Wadekar
Phys. Rev. D 113, 104017/arXiv:2511.11536
Consistency of spin effects between numerical relativity and perturbation theory for inspiraling comparable-mass black hole binaries
Tousif Islam, Gaurav Khanna, Scott Field
Phys. Rev. D 113, L121503/arXiv:2510.00531
Eccentric binary black holes: A new framework for numerical relativity waveform surrogates
Peter James Nee, Adhrit Ravichandran, Scott E. Field, Tousif Islam, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Vijay Varma et al
Phys. Rev. Res. 8, 023362/arXiv:2510.00106
Data-driven extraction and phenomenology of eccentric harmonics in eccentric spinning binary black hole mergers
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Isha Anantpurkar, Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet, Jonathan Mushkin, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D/arXiv:2509.20556
Binary black hole population inference combining confident and marginal events from the IAS-HM search pipeline
Ajit Kumar Mehta, Digvijay Wadekar, Isha Anantpurkar, Javier Roulet, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Tousif Islam, Jonathan Mushkin, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga
Phys. Rev. D 112, 124023/arXiv:2508.15350
Improving gravitational wave search sensitivity with TIER: Trigger Inference using Extended strain Representation
Digvijay Wadekar, Arush Pimpalkar, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Benjamin Wandelt, Emanuele Berti, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Javier Roulet, Tousif Islam, Barak Zackay, Jonathan Mushkin, Matias Zaldarriaga
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D/arXiv:2507.08318
Searching for intermediate mass ratio binary black hole mergers in the third observing run of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA
Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Digvijay Wadekar, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Tousif Islam, Javier Roulet, Emanuele Berti, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga
Phys. Rev. D 113, 023003/arXiv:2507.01083
The SXS Collaboration's third catalog of binary black hole simulations
SXS Collaboration (including Tousif Islam)
Class. Quantum Grav. 42, 195017/arXiv:2505.13378
Data-driven extraction, phenomenology and modeling of eccentric harmonics in binary black hole merger waveforms
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Isha Anantpurkar, Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet, Jonathan Mushkin, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga
Phys. Rev. D 112, 044070/arXiv:2504.12469
gwharmone: first data-driven surrogate for eccentric harmonics in binary black hole merger waveforms
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Ajit Kumar Mehta, Isha Anantpurkar, Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet, Jonathan Mushkin, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga
Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett./arXiv:2504.12420
GWSurrogate: A Python package for gravitational wave surrogate models
Scott Field et al (including Tousif Islam)
J. Open Source Softw. 10, 7073/arXiv:2504.08839
Post-Newtonian theory-inspired framework for characterizing eccentricity in gravitational waveforms
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav
Phys. Rev. D 112, 104039/arXiv:2502.02739
Significant increase in sensitive volume of a gravitational wave search upon including higher harmonics
Ajit Kumar Mehta, Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet, Isha Anantpurkar, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Jonathan Mushkin, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga, Tousif Islam
Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett./arXiv:2501.17939

2024

★ Universal phenomenological relations between spherical harmonic modes in non-precessing eccentric binary black hole merger waveforms
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav
Phys. Rev. D 111, L081503/arXiv:2408.14654
Adding higher-order spherical harmonics in non-spinning eccentric binary black hole merger waveform models
Tousif Islam, Scott Field, Gaurav Khanna
Phys. Rev. D 111, 124023/arXiv:2408.02762
Gravitational wave surrogate model for spinning, intermediate mass ratio binaries based on perturbation theory and numerical relativity
Katie Rink, Ritesh Bachhar, Tousif Islam, Nur E.M. Rifat, Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada, Scott E. Field, Gaurav Khanna, Scott A. Hughes, Vijay Varma
Phys. Rev. D 110, 124069/arXiv:2407.18319
Gravitational waves from black hole emission
Tousif Islam, Gaurav Khanna and Steven L. Liebling
Universe 11, 21/arXiv:2407.16989
Phenomenology and origin of late-time tails in eccentric binary black hole mergers
Tousif Islam, Guglielmo Faggioli, Gaurav Khanna, Scott E. Field, Maarten van de Meent and Alessandra Buonanno
Phys. Rev. D 112, 024061/arXiv:2407.04682
Straightforward mode hierarchy in eccentric binary black hole mergers and associated waveform model
Tousif Islam
Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett./arXiv:2403.15506
Study of eccentric binary black hole mergers using numerical relativity and an inspiral-merger-ringdown model
Tousif Islam
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D/arXiv:2403.03487
Mapping between black-hole perturbation theory and numerical relativity II: gravitational-wave momentum
Tousif Islam
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D/arXiv:2401.14532

2023

Comparing numerical relativity and perturbation theory waveforms for a non-spinning equal-mass binary
Tousif Islam, Scott Field, Gaurav Khanna
Universe 10, 25/arXiv:2312.01636
Mapping between black-hole perturbation theory and numerical relativity: gravitational-wave energy flux
Tousif Islam
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D/arXiv:2310.05743
★ Analysis of GWTC-3 with fully precessing numerical relativity surrogate models
Tousif Islam, Avi Vajpeyi, Feroz Shaik, Carl-Johan Haster, Vijay Varma, Scott Field, Jacob Lange, Richard O'Shaughnessy and Rory Smith
Phys. Rev. D 112, 044001/arXiv:2309.14473
On the approximate relation between black-hole perturbation theory and numerical relativity
Tousif Islam, Gaurav Khanna
Phys. Rev. D 108, 124046/arXiv:2307.03155
Interplay between numerical-relativity and black hole perturbation theory in the intermediate-mass-ratio regime
Tousif Islam
Phys. Rev. D 108, 044013/arXiv:2306.08771
Interplay between numerical relativity and perturbation theory: finite size effects
Tousif Islam, Gaurav Khanna
Phys. Rev. D 108, 044012/arXiv:2306.08767
White dwarf mass-radius relation in theories beyond general relativity
Khursid Alam and Tousif Islam
J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. 08, 081/arXiv:2301.08677
Remnant black hole properties from numerical relativity informed perturbation theory and implications for waveform modelling
Tousif Islam, Scott Field, Gaurav Khanna
Phys. Rev. D 108, 064048/arXiv:2301.07215

2022

Factorized Parameter Estimation for Real-Time Gravitational Wave Inference
Tousif Islam, Javier Roulet, Tejaswi Venumadhav
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D/arXiv:2210.16278
Removing degeneracy and multimodality in gravitational wave source parameters
Javier Roulet, Seth Olsen, Jonathan Mushkin, Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Barak Zackay, Matias Zaldarriaga
Phys. Rev. D 106, 123015/arXiv:2207.03508
★ Surrogate model for gravitational wave signals from non-spinning, comparable-to-large-mass-ratio black hole binaries built on black hole perturbation theory waveforms calibrated to numerical relativity
Tousif Islam, Scott Field, Scott Hughes, Gaurav Khanna, Vijay Varma, Matthew Giesler, Mark Scheel, Lawrence Kidder, and Harald Pfeiffer
Phys. Rev. D 106, 104025/arXiv:2204.01972/Editor's Suggestion
Evidence of large recoil velocity from a black hole merger signal
Vijay Varma, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Tousif Islam, Feroz H. Shaik et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191102/arXiv:2201.01302

2021

Applying higher-modes consistency test on GW190814: lessons on no-hair theorem, nature of the secondary compact object and waveform modeling
Tousif Islam
Submitted to Phys. Rev. D/arXiv:2111.00111
Survey of gravitational wave memory in intermediate mass ratio binaries
Tousif Islam, Scott Field, Gaurav Khanna & Niels Warburton
Phys. Rev. D 108, 024046/arXiv:2109.00754
High-precision source characterization of intermediate mass-ratio black hole coalescences with gravitational waves: The importance of higher-order multipoles
Tousif Islam, Scott Field, Rory Smith & Carl-Johan Haster
Phys. Rev. D 104, 084068/arXiv:2105.04422
★ Eccentric binary black hole surrogate models for the gravitational waveform and remnant properties: comparable mass, nonspinning case
Tousif Islam, Vijay Varma, Jackie Lodman, Scott E. Field, Gaurav Khanna, Mark A. Scheel, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Davide Gerosa, and Lawrence E. Kidder
Phys. Rev. D 103, 064022/arXiv:2101.11798

2020

Improved analysis of GW190412 with a precessing numerical relativity surrogate waveform model
Tousif Islam, Scott Field, Rory Smith & Carl-Johan Haster
Phys. Rev. D 103, 104027/arXiv:2010.04848

2019

Acceleration Relations in the Milky Way as Differentiators of Modified Gravity Theories
Tousif Islam and Koushik Dutta
Phys. Rev. D 101, 084015/arXiv:1911.11836
Testing the "No-hair" nature of binary black holes using the consistency of multipolar gravitational radiation
Tousif Islam, Ajit K. Mehta, Abhirup Ghosh, Vijay Varma, P. Ajith & B. S. Sathyaprakash
Phys. Rev. D 101, 024032/arXiv:1910.14259
Enigmatic Velocity Dispersions of Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in Light of Modified gravity Theories and Radial Acceleration Relation
Tousif Islam
Phys. Rev. D 102, 024068/arXiv:1910.09726
Modified Gravity Theories in Light of the Anomalous Velocity Dispersion of NGC1052-DF2
Tousif Islam and Koushik Dutta
Phys. Rev. D 100, 104049/arXiv:1908.07160

2018

Globular clusters as a probe for Weyl Conformal Gravity
Tousif Islam
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 488, 4/arXiv:1811.00065
Testing Weyl Gravity at Galactic and Extra-galactic scales
Koushik Dutta and Tousif Islam
Phys. Rev. D 98, 124012/arXiv:1808.06923

Theses

Connecting numerical relativity, perturbation theory, and gravitational waves astrophysics
PhD thesis, Computational Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2023
Differentiable numerical relativity surrogate waveform models
MS thesis, Data Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2023
Cosmological and astrophysical viability of Weyl gravity
MS thesis, Physics, IISER Kolkata, 2018