Karan Diwan


“Dovere is my hand, tho small,
May I not add with truth;
I do my best to please you all,
Encourage then my youth.”

- The Maillardet Automaton, 1800

I build systems from first principles to understand how structure gives rise to computation, and how computation gives rise to intelligence.


My work explores intelligence, thought, language, and machinery through the lens of computation - investigating how simple logical structures combine to form memory, control, adaptation, and learning.

The trajectory moves from low-level arithmetic systems and stored-program architectures to hardware-level learning models and topology-driven computation.

I am drawn to questions at the boundary of structure and intelligence: how physical systems implement abstraction, representation, adaptation, and decision-making.


This site is a record of that exploration.


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