About JF Advanced Analytics
Most engineering programs run on point estimates. One prediction with unknown confidence. When the stakes are high, being wrong is expensive, so the standard solution is large safety margins. Without quantified uncertainty, safety margins can either add false confidence to risky designs or result in overly conservative expensive ones. Josh Fody founded JF Advanced Analytics, a boutique engineering consultancy, to help programs know what they don't know.
Josh is a U.S. Navy veteran who helps clients move their models beyond point estimates. He delivers probability-weighted outcome ranges, giving decision-makers a clear read on prediction confidence and where they can focus efforts to address sources of uncertainty.
He spent nearly twelve years as an engineer at NASA Langley, working at the intersection of physics-based modeling, uncertainty quantification, and high-consequence problems with sparse, noisy, real-world data. His background spans both hands-on experimental work and computational modeling, giving him an intuitive grasp of the challenges in obtaining clean, consistent measurements in real-world environments, and how to build analyses robust enough to handle them.
Every JF Advanced Analytics engagement is fixed-scope with defined deliverables. The credentialed expert who scopes the work executes it — no overhead, no junior analysts.
Education & Certifications
2013 M.S. in Mechanical Engineering — University of Maryland
2022 Certified Data Scientist — NC State University AI Academy
2023 Artificial Intelligence Associate — NC State University AI Academy
2025 DevOps, DataOps & MLOps — Duke University
Awards
2021 NASA Government Invention of the Year Award — Honorable Mention
2020 NASA Research and Technology Award
2017 NASA Early Career Achievement Medal
2016 NASA Langley Group Award
Patents
2019 U.S. Patent 10,300,675 — Lightweight Flexible Thermal Protection System for Fire Protection
Licensed by four companies (2019–2023)
U.S. Patent 10,391,737 — Lightweight Flexible Thermal Protection System for Fire Protection
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