Asad Hussain, Ph.D.

Asad Hussain joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) as a Flatiron Research Fellow in Fall 2025. He is broadly interested in the formation and evolution of binary black holes and in using gravitational-wave observations to understand their astrophysical origins and distribution across the universe. His research also explores how the post-merger “ringdown” of black holes can be used to probe their environments and test fundamental physics. Asad is also interested in developing robust and scalable computational techniques for astrophysical population inference, with an emphasis on methods that can meet the demands of growing gravitational-wave datasets. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin and his B.S. in physics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan, where he is originally from.