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A. Astrophysical population of Black Holes

• Thermodynamics to Infer Binary Black Hole Astrophysics
  P. Hu, K. Jani, K. Holley-Bockelmann, G. Carullo| 2021

• Inferring parameters of GW170525 - the loudest intermediate mass black hole trigger in LIGO's O1/O2 data
  R. Udall, K. Jani, J. Lange et al. , Astrophysical Journal | 2020

• Global Stellar Budget for LIGO Black Holes
  K. Jani, A. Loeb, Astrophysical Journal Letters | 2019

• Detectability of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Multiband Gravitational Wave Astronomy
  K. Jani, D. Shoemaker, C. Cutler, Nature Astronomy Letter | 2019

• GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
  B. P. Abbott et al. (K. Jani with LSC), Physical Review X, arXiv 811.12907 | 2018

• Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network
  B. P. Abbott et al. (K. Jani with LSC), Physical Review D | 2019

• Search for Intermediate Mass Black Hole Binaries in the First Observing Run of Advanced LIGO
  B. P. Abbott et al. (K. Jani with LSC), Physical Review D 96, 022001 | 2017

• Sensitivity of gravitational wave searches to the full signal of intermediate mass black hole binaries during the first observing run of advanced LIGO
  J. C. Bustillo, F. Salemi, T. Canton, K. Jani, Physical Review D | 2018

• All-Sky Search for Short Gravitational-Wave Bursts in the First Advanced LIGO run
  B. P. Abbott et al. (K. Jani with LSC), Physical Review D, 042003 | 2017

B. Numerical Relativity

• Assessing the Readiness of Numerical Relativity for LISA and 3G Detectors
  D. Ferguson, K. Jani, D. Shoemaker, P. Laguna, Submitted to Physical Review Letter | 2020

• Georgia Tech Catalog of Gravitational Waveforms
  K. Jani et al., Classical & Quantum Gravity (Special Issue Article) | 2016

• On the properties of the massive binary black hole merger GW170729
  K. Chatziioannou et al. (including K. Jani ), arXiv 1903.06742 | 2019

• Targeted numerical simulations of binary black holes for GW170104
  J. Healy et. al (including K. Jani), Physical Review D 96, 104041 | 2018

• Observing Gravitational-Wave Transient GW150914 with Minimal Assumptions
  B. P. Abbott et al. (K. Jani with LSC), Physical Review D 93, 122004 | 2016

• Directly Comparing GW150914 with Numerical Solutions of Einstein’s Equations for Binary Black Hole Coalescence
  B. P. Abbott et al. (K. Jani with LSC), Physical Review D 94, 064035 | 2016

• A Parameter Estimation Method that Directly Compares Gravitational Wave Observations to Numerical Relativity
  J. Lange et. al (including K. Jani), Physical Review D 96, 104041 | 2017

• Connecting Numerical Relativity and Data Analysis of Gravitational Wave Detectors
  D. Shoemaker, K. Jani, L. London and L. Pekowsky, Proceedings of the 3rd Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics, vol. 40 | 2014

C. Next generation experiments

• Gravitational-Wave Lunar Observatory for Cosmology
  K. Jani, A. Loeb, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics | 2021

• Detection Landscape in the Deci-Hertz Gravitational-Wave Spectrum
  K. Izumi, K. Jani, Invited chapter for "Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy" (Eds. C. Bambi, S. Katsanevas and K. Kokkotas; Springer Singapore, 2021)

• The Missing Link in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Discoveries waiting in the decihertz range
  M. Arca Sedda, C. Berry, K. Jani+, Classical and Quantum Gravity| 2020

• What we can learn from multi-band observations of black hole binaries
  C. Cutler, E. Berti, K. Jani + , ASTRO2020 Decadal Survey | 2019

• Pointing LISA-like Gravitational Wave Detectors
  K. Jani, L. S. Finn and M. Benacquista, arXiv:1306.3253 | 2013

• SAGE: finding IMBH in the black hole desert
  S. Lacour et al (including K. Jani), Classical & Quantum Gravity, arXiv:1811.04743 | 2018

D. Science Policy

• Promise and Perils of Big Data Science for Intelligence Community*
  K. Jani et al., Book Chapter in Springer’s ‘Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications' | 2018

• Impact of International Cooperation for Sustaining Space-Science Programs
  K. Jani, studies conducted as part of Sam Nunn Fellowship, arXiv:1610.08618 | 2016