Neev Shah
Education
- Ph.D in Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Arizona, 2029 (expected)
- advisor Mathieu Renzo
- M.S., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, 2019
- advisor Parameswaran Ajith, Susmita Adhikari
- B.S., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, 2019
Publications and Preprints
5) K. Sen, M. Renzo, H. Jin, N. Langer, A. Schootemeijer, J. I. Villaseñor, L. Mahy, A. Grichener, N. Shah, C. Wang, X.-T. Xu Interacting binaries on the Main Sequence as in-situ tracers of mass transfer efficiency and stability (submitted to AAS) arXiv:2511.15347
4) C. A. Burt, M. Renzo, A. Grichener, N. Shah On the prevalence of early mass transfer for very massive binaries RNAAS
3) C. Chawla, S. Chatterjee, N. Shah, K. Breivik Detecting Detached Black Hole binaries through Photometric Variability ApJ, arXiv:2310.16891
2) N. Shah, S. Adhikari The abundance of core–collapsed subhalos in SIDM: insights from structure formation in ΛCDM MNRAS, arXiv:2308.16342
1) N.Shah, A. Knee, J. McIver, D. Stenning Waves in a forest: A Random Forest Classifier to distinguish between Gravitational Waves and Glitches CQG, arXiv:2306.13787
Grants, Honors, Awards
- 2025 - TAP Travel Grant (1000$) - Conference at KITP, UCSB
- 2025 - Posydon Summer School Travel Grant (1000$)
- 2025 - IAU Travel Grant (500€) - IAU Massive Stars Symposium in Ensenada, Mexico
- 2025 - TAP Travel Grant (500$) - MESA Summer School at KU Leuven, Belgium
- 2024 - Science GradCollege Fellowship (3000$) - The University of Arizona
- 2023 - Long Term Visiting Student Fellowship (1350$) - MS Thesis at ICTS, Bengaluru
- 2022 - MITACS Globalink Research Internship (~6500$) - Summer Internship at UBC, Vancouver
- 2022 - Academic Excellence Award (60$) - CNR Rao Foundation, IISER Pune
- 2020-2024 - KVPY Fellowship (4600$) - DST, Government of India
- 2019-2020 - DST-INSPIRE Fellowship (~1000$) - DST, Government of India
Membership
- 2024 - now: American Astronomical Society
- 2022 - 2023: LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Talks, Posters, Presentations
- Feb 2026 - TAP “Meet Yourself Event”, The University of Arizona (Talk)
- Jan 2026 - AAS 247, Phoenix (Talk)
- Dec 2025 - Big Boom Meeting, The University of Arizona (Talk)
- Nov 2025 - KITP Conference on “The Lifecycle of Stellar Black Holes” (Talk)
- Nov 2025 - Bin Boom Meeting, The University of Arizona (Talk)
- September 2025 - IAU Massive Stars Symposium, Ensenada, Mexico (Poster)
- Nov 2024 - Steward Observatory Symposium (Talk)
- Oct 2024 - Big Boom Meeting, The University of Arizona (Talk)
- Oct 2024 - Bin Boom Meeting, The University of Arizona (Talk)
- May 2024 - MS Defense, IISER Pune (Talk)
- Feb 2024 - 42nd Meeting of the Astronomical Society of India, Bengaluru (Poster)
- Dec 2023 - International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, Guwahati, India (Talk)
- Dec 2023 - International Conference on Gravitation and Cosmology, Guwahati, India (Poster)
- Aug 2023 - Astromatic Hackathon, Ciela Institute, Montreal (Talk)
- Jun 2023 - IISER Pune - IUCAA Cosmology Group Meeting (Talk)
- Apr 2023 - LIGO Detector Characterization Group (Talk)
- Sept 2022 - LVK Fall Meeting (Poster)
- Aug 2022 - UBC LIGO Group (Talk)
Software, Technical Skills
- Programming Langauges - Python, Fortran
- Software - MESA
- Tools - Git, GitHub, HPC, Condor, SLURM
Schools, Workshops
- Sept 2025 - Posydon Summer School, SkAI Institute, Chicago
- July 2025 - MESA Summer School, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Feb 2025 - Science Communication Workshop, Steward Observatory
- Aug 2023 - Astromatic Hackathon, Ciela Institute, Montreal
- July 2023 - ICTS Gravitational Waves Summer School
- May - June 2023 - IUCAA Summer School in Astronomy and Astrophysics
- June 2022 - Student Workshop at GWANW Meeting, LIGO Hanford
- 2021 - GW Open Data Workshop
- 2021 - Code/Astro Workshop
Service, Outreach
- Jan 2026 - Present: Space Drafts (Tucson’s version of Astronomy on Tap) - Organizer
- Jan 2025 - Present: Astrobites - Author and DEI Committee Member
- May 2025 - Present: Steward Observatory Graduate Council - Member
- Aug 2025 - Present: Steward Observatory Science Coffee - Organizer
- October 2025: Steward Observatory Symposium (Volunteer)
- March 2025: Steward Observatory Symposium (Volunteer)
- October 2024: Steward Observatory Symposium (Volunteer)
- 2020 - 2021: Astronomy Club of IISER Pune - Club Coordinator
- 2020 - 2021: Mimamsa - Science Outreach Head