Asad Hussain
Flatiron Research Fellow
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsad Hussain is a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Simons Foundation with a decade of experience in Bayesian inference, statistical modeling, and computational astrophysics. He combines a PhD in physics with a certified Data Engineer background to build reproducible, open-source tools (including pip-packaged libraries) for hierarchical Bayesian analysis and gravitational-wave inference. His work uncovered the first hints of correlations in black hole spin magnitudes from LVK data and accelerated ringdown parameter inference accuracy by roughly 100×. Asad develops precision tests of physics beyond General Relativity by extracting specific frequencies from stochastic LIGO time series and has implemented novel truncated-kernel Gaussian mixture methods across Python and Julia. Based in New York, he balances rigorous first-principles modeling with practical HPC and JAX/NumPyro implementations, and brings a creative side—making music—into a data-driven research practice.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at Lahore University of Management SciencesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at The University of Texas at AustinA Levels, Further Mathematics, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, 3 A*s, 2 As, A Levels, Further Mathematics, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, 3 A*s, 2 As at Karachi Grammar School
English, Urdu
Github Skills (28)
probability10
statistics10
distributions10
julia10
data-science9
bayesian8
simplification7
symbolic-math7
pattern-matching7
wolfram-language6
calculus6
cas6
computational-physics6
rewriting6
ssreflect6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Potatoasad/TruncatedGaussianMixtures.jl
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 63 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Potatoasad/ringdb
Feb 2022 - Dec 2023
A gravitational event database that queries and locally saves event strain samples, detector PSDs and posterior samples.
Contributions:6 releases, 6 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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