Tariq's primary research interests lie in continuum modeling of high explosives as well as devising novel computational algorithms for compressible reacting flow and level set methods. His work led to a William Penney Fellowship (2012-2013) and he was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2015. His scientific papers can be found at google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=im8bljsAAAAJ&hl=en