All research

Utsav Mathur

Architect-engineer building shell structures and the AI tools that help find their form.

Writing

  1. The Descent Networks of Calandra

    A technical appraisal of gravity-glide urban transit

  2. The Company Is a Flowchart

    Why the hardest problem in enterprise software is a modelling error, and why the fix has to be free

  3. The Plural Shelf

    Consumer decision trees model an averaged shopper who does not exist, and function alone has stopped being sufficient to sell

  4. Can a City Take a Joke?

    Phantom infrastructure, public art, and the case for civic self-annotation

  5. The Volume Asymmetry of Physical AI

    Why physical intelligence requires capex substitution, edge perception, and owning the unrecorded state of space over time.

  6. 3D Was Never an Interface

    Why the spatial turn in artificial intelligence is a data argument, not a display argument

  7. Machine-readable, then machine-run

    Compressing the dg2n thesis — the AI operating layer for physical retail — into thirty seconds.

  8. AI Decentralization Ends at Your Dinner Table

    The intelligence race pushes AI onto owned hardware, then onto your body. A three-to-four-year chain, told as a story.

  9. Form-finding with AI: from catenary to catenet

    Using diffusion-based surrogates to explore the shell design space — shortening a week-long topology study into minutes.