GeoLiquefy
AI-powered geohazard intelligence for engineers, governments, and resilient cities. It started with liquefaction; the ground has other ways of failing, and we intend to model them all. New to liquefaction? We made soilliquefaction.com to show you.
Achyut Tiwari
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I'm the founder and CEO of GeoLiquefy. The through-line in my work is hidden fragility: as a student I got obsessed with Taleb and wrote about what antifragility would mean for software; then a professor handed me its physical version, soil that behaves until an earthquake asks it not to. I never left. I'm an Emergent Ventures Fellow, between San Francisco and Bengaluru. Here's what I'm doing now, and the shelves I read from.
Building
Indian Exceptionalism
An open inquiry into why India survived what should have broken it: strongest opposing case first, definition by subtraction. I curate essays from soldiers, educators, and scholars.
Fortress India
Shiv Kunal Verma is a friend and a mentor, and his life's work on India's military history and terrain deserves to endure. I help with technology and strategy wherever I'm useful.
Writing
Two Voices on the Classroom Republic
With Shiv Kunal Verma. What a civilisation asks of its classrooms, it first asks of itself.
The Inquiry
Not pride. Not myth. A question. The framing essay for Indian Exceptionalism: what the project is, and what it refuses to be.
Geotechnical Risk Assessment: Overcoming Small Data Challenges with Language Models
With Ashok Kumar Gupta and Saurabh Rawat. How language models can make geotechnical risk legible when the data is small.
Positioning Antifragility for Software
With Ravindara Bhatt. What Taleb's antifragility would mean for software architecture. The essay that started a thread I'm still pulling.
Speaking
Research
Service
Nominated member, SIAM · Professional member, ACM
Reviewer — Supercomputing (SC), Computers in Biology and Medicine