Kenneth Mikolaichik
Dare to dream boldly, persevering against all odds towards creation.
Dare to dream boldly, persevering against all odds towards creation.
Humanity will never fully become space-fairing without an economical solution to lifting mass beyond earths gravity.
I believe new and novel approaches are needed to unite sub-orbital airfoil lift technology with space exploration propulsion methods.
I am investigating interactions of the electromagnetic spectrum with metamaterials and nano-engineered condensed matter to this end.
In what stretch of code does a machine gain the ability to learn?
If a machine becomes self aware, should we destroy it or nurture it?
I have begun investigations into machine learning by building a functioning quadrupedal robot. Equipped with machine vision via an infared capable camera. The main programming language is python running within a Linux environment on a Raspberry Pi.
Probing structural alterations in shock-compressed GaAs. Journal of Materials Chemistry. (1) Bhowmick, M., Sellan, D., Johnson, K., Mikolaichik, K., Zhou, X., Das, A., Ramkumar, C., Magill, B., Smith, N., & Khodaparast, G. (2025).
My name is Kenneth Mikolaichik, a Texas native born 1990. I grew up in Austin the youngest of three and only boy, son of a chemist and a seamstress. I developed a knack for repairing everyday things at a young age. Ever hungry for more knowledge and spurred on by a desire to live comfortably, I attended the Liberal Arts and Science Academy High School in Austin. After High School I worked a plethora of temporary and remedial positions looking for my place in society. I attended ITT Tech in pursuit of an electrical engineering degree where I made the Deans list several times. While still attending online, I joined the US Navy and received training as an aircraft mechanic in Pensacola Florida where I achieved top of my class and class leader. I received an award and was promoted immediately to E-4. Within two years of my enlistment date I was promoted to E-5 wherein I became the second shift supervisor of ten F-18 Superhornets for the airframes shop of VFA-151. Upon exiting my military contact I resided in California for 2 years restoring dead and abandoned F-18’s that had not flown in years to pristine flight ready condition. It was around this time that I completed an associates in aeronautics from Embry Riddle. Missing my family, and longing for those Texas sunsets, I moved to San Antonio - Military City USA. I worked for Northrop Grumman for two years as a level III structural mechanic and then decided that was simply not enough; I needed to contribute to something more. This was when I decided to pursue a physics degree at the University of Texas and seriously investigate new approaches to lift and automated robotic repair. I volunteered my time for three years in Dr Xuan Zhou’s Optics lab within the Physics Department performing spectroscopic analysis of nanomaterials under high pressure and in 2025 I graduated with honors. I then began the formation of Mikolaichik Solutions LLC.
