Kevin Lord is Director of Bioinformatics at Astrea Forensics, where he leads development of bioinformatics tools and workflows for forensic investigative genetic genealogy. He is the architect and lead developer of Astrea’s ISO 17025-validated WOPR pipeline, which converts challenging low-coverage and degraded sequencing data into FIGG-optimized SNP profiles. Kevin has been involved in FIGG since 2018 and brings a rare dual perspective to the field, with hands-on experience performing genetic genealogy on dozens of FIGG cases as well as bioinformatics analysis for hundreds of casework samples. His prior work includes contributions to DNA Justice and the DNA Doe Project, where he helped support law enforcement investigations involving unidentified human remains and violent crime cases.
