Igor Kuvychko
I build decision systems that improve how factories run, especially in semiconductor manufacturing. I love how this work fuses hard mathematics with production software and the practical reality of manufacturing operations.
Featured
Shortest Paths as Relaxation Schedules
An interactive explainer comparing Bellman–Ford, Dijkstra, min-plus propagation, and max-plus critical paths as different schedules for applying the same relaxation update. Step through synchronous Bellman–Ford sweeps, Dijkstra’s priority-driven finalization, tropical (min-plus) matrix powers, and max-plus critical-path propagation on a shared visual language.
Selected work
Explainer: Max-plus cadence
Close a schedule into a loop and its long-run beat becomes an eigenvalue. Trajectories, transients, eigenvectors, and a live bottleneck-sensitivity explorer.
Paper: Gregory Bateson and AI
A published technical note on how Bateson’s cybernetics — information as “a difference which makes a difference,” mind as an extended circuit — sharpens questions about modern AI systems. With a companion podcast conversation.
Paper: When Addition Becomes Optimization
A published technical note tracing one weighted graph through min-plus and max-plus algebra: shortest paths, critical paths, schedules, and bottleneck cadence as one matrix recurrence. With five interactive artifacts, all archived on Zenodo.
Project: Complexplorer
A Python library for visualizing complex functions — domain coloring, phase portraits, and Riemann relief maps that export to 3D-printable mathematical ornaments. Available on PyPI.
Objects
3D-printed mathematical objects, lab fixtures, and practical workshop designs — the workshop side of the site. Models are published on Printables.
Principal data scientist at INFICON, with an Intel process-engineering background. I work at the seam between mathematical modeling and shipped industrial software — analytics, machine learning, and AI/agentic tools alongside the schedulers, simulators, and optimization underneath them — and I came to it after a decade on the factory floor and an earlier career as a research chemist.
About this site
This is a curated hub for selected technical work: essays and mathematical notes, papers and supporting information, interactive educational artifacts, a few public projects, and 3D-printed designs. New work is distributed through GitHub, archived on Zenodo, and published on Printables; these pages provide stable, readable landing points that connect those surfaces.