Team
The team.
Analytica's engagements are led and delivered by the three senior people on this page. When a project requires another specialty, a named specialist joins for that part of the work.
Founder
Dr. Aous Abdo
Aous is a physicist. He spent a decade in federally funded research — the Milagro observatory at Los Alamos, then a National Academy of Sciences fellowship on NASA’s Fermi mission, held across NASA and the Naval Research Laboratory — extracting faint signals from noisy instrument data and defending the results under expert review. He now applies the same methods to client work.
- Statistical inference on noisy, incomplete and contested data
- Explainable models for regulated and public-sector decisions
- Federal delivery — scoping, clearance, and what may be said about it afterwards
Chief Technical Officer
Dr. Amine Chouicha
Dr. Chouicha has built production data infrastructure for twenty-five years, seventeen of them in financial services. He builds entitlement frameworks that decide who may read what, streaming platforms moving data between teams that never agreed on a schema, and search infrastructure serving an entire company rather than one product.
- Real-time and streaming data architecture, at enterprise scale
- Data governance and entitlement — who may see which rows, enforced in the platform
- Hybrid and multi-cloud platform design, and the migration path onto it
- Engineering leadership across distributed teams and time zones
Principal AI Engineer
Jacob Weiss
Jacob builds the infrastructure other people’s AI runs on. He is a core engineer on two open-source frameworks used well beyond this firm — pixeltable, which handles multimodal data for AI workloads, and agno, for multi-agent systems with memory and reasoning.
Degrees in financial engineering and in analytics.
- Agentic systems — orchestration, tool use, and memory that survives a session
- Multimodal data infrastructure for AI workloads
- Retrieval and embedding pipelines, from prototype to something on call
- Cloud deployment for AI services, chiefly on AWS
How we staff
Specialists.
When a project needs a specialty none of the three of us has, we bring in a named specialist for that portion of the engagement.
Work with this team
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