About
Aous Ahmad Abdo
Founder & CEO, Analytica Data Science Solutions · Physicist
Aous Abdo's work follows one thread across an extraordinary range of scales. It began inside the atomic nucleus — an analytic solution for the anharmonic vibrations of even-even spherical nuclei — and moved outward to the highest-energy light in the sky.
At Los Alamos National Laboratory he led nuclear-physics research; at the Milagro observatory his A₄ technique produced the instrument's first TeV gamma-ray discoveries. As a National Academy of Sciences Fellow at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and a member of the Fermi Large Area Telescope team, he helped open the GeV gamma-ray sky — leading the analysis of the first pulsar found through a blind gamma-ray search and lead-authoring foundational Fermi papers on the instrument, pulsars, blazars, and active galaxies.
The same instinct — pulling a faint signal out of overwhelming noise — now drives his work in data science and AI. In 2015 he founded Analytica Data Science Solutions, where as Founder & CEO he turns complex data into actionable insight for business and government. He has taught data science, machine learning, and AI across four continents, served as a NASA teaching ambassador, and authored two books on advanced analytics.
Research impact
Paper-level authorship checked; metrics include Fermi-LAT and Milagro collaboration papers indexed in the INSPIRE-HEP record · updated 2026-07-28 UTC
Publications by year
Milagro / thesis era · Fermi-LAT era
View yearly publication counts as text
- 20061 papers
- 20077 papers
- 20085 papers
- 200935 papers
- 201034 papers
- 201114 papers
- 20125 papers
- 20132 papers
- 20143 papers
- 20152 papers
Research themes
- Other29
- Pulsars & PWNe24
- Blazars & AGN16
- Instrumentation & methods12
- Diffuse & cosmic rays11
- Supernova remnants8
- Catalogs & surveys4
- Gamma-ray bursts4
Themes inferred from paper titles — a broad-strokes view, not a formal classification.
Career
- 2015 – presentFounder & CEO, Analytica Data Science Solutions · Virginia, USA
- 2014 – 2015Master-Level Data Scientist, Hewlett Packard · Herndon, VA
- 2012 – 2014Senior Scientist, Institute for Defense Analyses · Alexandria, VA
- 2010 – 2012Research Professor, George Mason University · Fairfax, VA
- 2007 – 2010National Academy of Sciences Fellow, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory · Washington, DC
- 2003 – 2007Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory · Los Alamos, NM
Education
- 2007Ph.D., Physics, Michigan State University Summa Cum Laude
- 2003M.S., Physics — Theoretical Nuclear, NSCL · Michigan State University Cum Laude
- 2000B.S., Physics & Mathematics, University of Jordan Summa Cum Laude
Honors & awards
- NASA Group Achievement Award
- National Research Council Research Publication Award — NASA & U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Continuous Research Award — Institute for Defense Analyses
- Sherwood K. Haynes Award — Outstanding Ph.D. Student in Physics & Astronomy, Michigan State University
- Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Physics — University of Jordan
- Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Natural Sciences — University of Jordan
Explore & connect
- The interactive story — from the nucleus to the cosmos →
- All 108 publications →
- PhD dissertation — Milagro TeV discoveries →
- Master's thesis — four-phonon anharmonicity →
- Analytica Data Science Solutions →
- Analytica blog →
- Full record on INSPIRE-HEP →
Contact
aous.abdo@analyticadss.com · Falls Church, Virginia, USA