KEVIN THORSEN BAIRD
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR & DIRECTOR
BAIRD RESEARCH & STRATEGIC SCIENCES, LLC
"We spent thirty years teaching silicon to think. We should have spent thirty years teaching it to remember."
BIOGRAPHY
Kevin Thorsen Baird is the Principal Investigator and Director of Baird Research & Strategic Sciences, LLC. He holds an MS in Instructional Technology and brings 25 years of enterprise systems architecture experience to the development of thermodynamic authentication methods for critical infrastructure and semiconductor supply chains.
His peer-reviewed research on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS, Vol. 79, March 2026). He holds multiple provisional US patents, including US 63/968,895 for isotopic authentication methods in semiconductor supply chain security. His work applies rigorous "Red Team" forensic analysis methodology—actively testing hypotheses against adversarial scenarios to ensure findings withstand scrutiny from peer reviewers and operational evaluators.
RESEARCH FOCUS
Isotopic Authentication
Development of thermodynamically unclonable physical anchors using isotopic gradient analysis and Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) for semiconductor supply chain security and critical infrastructure authentication.
Aerospace Forensics
Independent kinematic and spectroscopic analysis of anomalous aerospace objects using Red Team hypothesis testing methodology. Published research on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS in JBIS.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PATENTS
Baird, K.T. (2026). "Kinematic and Spectroscopic Constraints on the Origin of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS: An Ablative Propulsion Model." Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 79, March 2026. [In Press]
Baird, K.T. (2026). "Isotopic Topology as a Thermodynamically Unclonable Anchor for Supply Chain Security." Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18564494
US Provisional Patent Application No. 63/968,895 — Isotopic Authentication Method for Semiconductor Supply Chain Security
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