Rules and regulations in planning are tedious to read and can be even harder to understand. From residents to developers, the challenges in translating these regulations and ordinances into scalable action to build housing are numerous. Out in California, the founders of Symbium have democratized and automated understanding the complexities of planning regulations into a free, transformative resource for the entire state of California.
In 2020 they were the winner of the Ivory Prize in Housing Affordability and since then have continued to expand their work, helping to make the planning process easier and streamlined. Their portal is currently being utilized in cities like San Jose to expand housing supply.
Symbium’s CTO and co-founder Abhijeet Mohapatra joins HousingX virtually for a conversation with HousingForward board chair Vaughn Poller and VCHR associate director Mel Jones.
Abhijeet Mohapatra is a Co-Founder and the CTO of Symbium, the Computational Law company. Symbium is disrupting how the public interacts with zoning laws, helping them plan their residential construction projects through intuitive web applications to ensure compliance with zoning laws and a streamlined permitting experience. As an immigrant student in the US, he experienced first hand the challenges and the complexity of navigating regulations. This inspired him to build software applications which democratize the access of data and regulations for the public. He co-invented Dynamic Logic Programming, which enables compact representation of complex regulations in a manner that is amenable to automation, and holds multiple patents related to efficient analysis of data and policies. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University and his B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.
