Rhys Goldstein

Senior Principal Research Scientist

Americas

Biography

Rhys Goldstein is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at Autodesk Research who specializes in space analysis, visual programming, and multi-agent simulation for architectural design. Rhys has published papers on a wide range of topics including visualizing the spread of COVID-19 in office environments, representing time in multiscale simulations, and using Pascal’s Triangle to select travel paths through buildings. He has also developed modeling tools such as the SpaceAnalysis and VASA packages for Dynamo.

Before joining Autodesk, Rhys completed a bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia and a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Carleton University. He also worked in mineral exploration for a few years, leading geophysical surveys in Oman, Tasmania, Alaska, Cyprus, and all over Canada.

Rhys enjoys soccer, climbing, playing the piano, solving math problems, and chess. He lives in Toronto.

Publications

Publication

2022

Path Counting for Grid-Based Navigation

Counting the number of shortest paths on a grid is a simple procedure…

Publication

2021

COVID-19 Facility Planning and Analysis: Designing a Multi-Agent Occupant Simulation System

The COVID-19 pandemic changed our lives, forcing us to reconsider our…

Publication

2020

SpaceAnalysis: A Tool for Pathfinding, Visibility, and Acoustics Analyses in Generative Design Workflows

A growing number of architectural design efforts are making use of…

Projects

Project

2022

Simulation for Sustainable Buildings

With simulation results in hand, an architect can better predict the…

Project

2022

Systems Design and Simulation

Predictive models of complex systems will require a more scalable,…

Project

2019

Project Dasher: Real-Time Building Performance in BIM

Project Dasher is an Autodesk research project using a BIM-based…

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