Kevin Knuth

Knuth was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He received a Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1988, a Master of Science in physics from Montana State University in 1990, and a PhD in physics (with a minor in mathematics) from the University of Minnesota (1995), where he was supervised by John H. Broadhurst. ==Career==

After receiving his doctorate, Knuth taught in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences of the Graduate Center, CUNY, the Departments of Otolaryngology and Neuroscience of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the Department of Physiology and Biophysics of the Cornell University Medical Center. He also worked as a researcher at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research from 1999 to 2001 and at NASA's Ames Research Center from 2001 to 2005. It was reported by WAMC that Knuth's NASA work included "designing artificial intelligence algorithms for astrophysical data analysis" at the Intelligent Systems Division. In 2004, NASA Earth Science selected a project of Knuth's during his tenure with Ames at Moffett Federal Airfield to investigate, called Rapid Characterization of Causal Interactions among Climate/Weather System Variables: An Advanced Information-Theoretic Technique. He became an assistant professor of physics at the University at Albany Vice identified Knuth's academic focus as machine learning and exoplanets. since 2012. Knuth has presented at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching, Germany, Vice reported. == UFO research ==

In 2021, The Guardian identified Knuth as an expert in UFOs, writing that he is "among the UFO researchers who have shared their expertise with high school students." Space.com identified Knuth as an "active UAP researcher" in 2022. and is a research affiliate of The Galileo Project for the systematic scientific search for evidence of extraterrestrial technological artifacts at Harvard University. TPR observed that Knuth was "disappointed there has not been more serious study done by scientists" on the matter of UFOs. According to TPR, Knuth believes the "most likely" explanation for UFOs is they "to assume they're built by a government or an aerospace company", but that if so, it could require "multiple technological leapfrogs". The Associated Press reported that in 2021 Knuth would be working with the "U.S. Navy on a research vessel off the California coast" on UFO-related research. Leonard David in Space.com noted that Knuth believed scientific research related to UFOs was better decentralized in approach but sharing data, as "independent scientific studies." ==Media appearances==

• Netflix's Encounters, (episode 3). • National Geographic's UFOs: Investigating the Unknown, (season 2, episode 3). == References ==