Jacob Stelzriede

Engineering · Physics · Geometry

Behind the Curtain

I’m an engineer at heart, building systems that think, move, and respond to the world around them. My work bridges robotics, control theory, physics, and geometry, exploring how intelligence and stability emerge from motion and feedback.

My early background was in robotics engineering, with a focus on nonlinear control, dynamical systems, and autonomous platforms. I became interested in a simple but powerful question: how do you shape motion and behavior by managing energy?

That question guided my undergraduate thesis in robotics, my work on precision systems, large-scale dynamic art installations, and years of hands-on engineering across hardware, software, and control. Whether tuning feedback loops, stabilizing trajectories, or designing physical systems that behave reliably in the real world, I learned to think in terms of curves, constraints, and energy landscapes.

Over time, that same control-theoretic intuition led me beyond traditional robotics. I began exploring geometry and physics using the same tools engineers use every day: Lyapunov functions, conservation laws, stability analysis, and simulation. What started as curiosity became a serious research direction, using energy-based reasoning to study geometric structure, mass generation, and resonance phenomena in field-like systems.

In parallel, I’ve built large-scale public art installations that combine motion, sensing, and interaction—another way of exploring how structure, feedback, and perception emerge from physical systems.

I don’t chase problems for recognition; I chase them because I can’t ignore them. Curiosity, not credentials, has been the thread through everything I’ve built. I’m endlessly interested in how small principles—a twist, a pattern, a pulse—can scale into complex behavior.

Today, my work sits at the intersection of robotics, geometry, and symbolic computation. I’m interested in how control principles scale—from machines, to fields, to abstract structure— and how engineering intuition can open new paths through traditionally theoretical problems.

My long-term goal is simple: to apply practical, first-principles thinking to complex systems, and to build tools that make those systems understandable, controllable, and useful.

Professional Experience

Stealth Start-Up

Determinism & Intelligence

November 2025 -> Present

Building a backend control platform for Intelligent and Multi-Agent systems. AI needs a backend, users need reliability. The goal is not to compete with language systems, but to support them, so they can do what they do best.

Independent Research

Physics & Geometry

November 2024 -> December 2025

Expanded my control thesis into first-principles research across physics and geometry, focusing on reasoning, reinforcement, and symbolic field modeling. Using energy equations to manage curvature and motion in a controlled space.

Senior Mechatronics Engineer

Very IoT & Engineering Services

July 2023 -> July 2024

Translated ambitious concepts into production-ready, scalable systems. Applied full-stack prototyping through deployment while aligning iteration cycles with ML-style experimentation. Filed patent for an Intelligent Hydrotherapy System.

Robotics Engineer – System Integration

Verdant Robotics

March 2021 -> May 2023

Managed CI/CD pipelines and sensor integration for autonomous agricultural systems. Developed control tuning, validation, and field-ready deployment. Patent 11623305: Autonomous Laser Treatment System for Agricultural Objects.

Hardware Engineer – Systems

X, The Moonshot Factory (Google X)

July 2019 -> March 2021

Scaled an agricultural robotics fleet from 5 to 40 systems, integrating sensing, control, and data pipelines across multi-robot deployments. Twice awarded Engineering Excellence Award for cross-platform integration.

Founder – Creative Lead

Gears & Gadgets LLC

2016 -> Present

Engineering and design consulting focused on personal projects and large-scale interactive art. Work that is cross-disciplinary and merges control systems and creative expression.

Research & Exploratory Frameworks

My work is exploratory by nature, blending physics, control theory, and geometry to search for unifying principles in complex systems. These projects are open frameworks designed to provoke curiosity and invite others to explore, validate, and extend the ideas.

They are not presented as final solutions. Instead, they deliberately set ambitious goalposts, creating space to experiment, learn, and refine understanding. I don’t let difficult problems intimidate me—I approach them with patience, rigor, and managed expectations.

Not all manuscripts are currently public. Please email me for additional information or access.

Yang–Mills Mass Gap

A constructive Euclidean framework for SU(N) gauge theory, where a spectral mass gap emerges through twist–compression dynamics.

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Quantum Confinement Framework

A constructive simulation exploring mass generation, symmetry breaking, and confinement through dynamically evolving twist-capable scalar fields.

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Birch & Swinnerton–Dyer Conjecture

A resonance-based symbolic field model exploring elliptic curve group structure from field coherence and energy-locking dynamics.

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Hodge Conjecture

Symbolic field simulations reconstruct algebraic cycles on complex surfaces via triplet-based cohomology extraction.

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Navier–Stokes Regularization

Developing a field-based twist-compression regularization model to prevent singularities and maintain bounded vorticity.

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Riemann Hypothesis

Constructing a spectral framework where the zeros of ζ(s) correspond to eigenvalues of a self-adjoint operator.

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Beal Conjecture

Exploring symbolic exponent relations as geometric constraints; a constructive approach to field resonance and integer solutions.

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P vs NP

Investigating whether symbolic reasoning systems can map between verification and generation processes.

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Conservation Torque Framework (CTF)

A torque-routing and resonance-aware control architecture for spacecraft and autonomous systems.

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The Symbolic Field Encyclopedia

Physics & Differential Geometry — Oct 2025

A structured reference of field-theory, geometry and symbolic analogs developed as part of the Twist-Compression research program. View Document

Gears & Gadgets LLC Projects

Seasonal and commissioned works exploring the meeting point between engineering and expression. Each installation merges robotics, sensors, and light into experiences that move, breathe, and react.

The Alpaca Pakka (2023)

A 13-foot regenerative solar sculpture built from 1,000 blocks and 1,500 LEDs.

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Emotions Without Morals II (2022)

A re-imagined interactive sculpture replacing motion-tracking sensors with a Simon-Says-style memory game.

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Emotions Without Morals (2018)

Fifteen-foot interactive wood sculpture driven by Raspberry Pi and custom sensors; an early fusion of electronics, CAD, and human-machine empathy.

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Torch Song (2017)

A kinetic fire sculpture with nine moving flame elements, interactively controlled through an icosahedral interface.

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Tribute to Cadillac Ranch (2016)

Three-ton wooden sculpture honoring the end of the gas-guzzling era, depicting an electric car emerging from the earth.

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Contact

Let’s connect — I’m always open to collaboration, discussion, or curiosity.