01 / BUILD
Regimen
An orchestration layer for small language models built for efficient, long-horizon work.
Coordinates specialized SLM agents so complex tasks can be broken down, routed, and completed with practical runtime efficiency.
A map of ongoing work
ISHAAN RANJAN
I build systems for understanding, automating, and reshaping complex worlds.
AI systems · research · debate · improbable side quests
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Selected work
02 / RESEARCH
PRISM
Policy analytics and decision support for classification, causal audit, crash-risk forecasting, and scenario simulation.
Built a 51-state panel spanning 2000–2022, an event-study difference-in-differences workflow, 15+ automated figures, and transparent public artifacts.
03 / BUILD
YConstruction
A voice-first iPhone app for construction defect reporting.
Built at the YC × Google DeepMind Gemma Voice Agents Hackathon with SwiftUI, Gemma 3n, Whisper, Supabase, offline queueing, and BIM-linked issue review.
04 / BUILD
GreenhouseAgent / A.C.R.E.
An automation system for greenhouse sensing, intervention, and recommendations.
Combines Arduino sensors and actuators, FastAPI, OpenAI, a local Random Forest model, Supabase logging, and a live dashboard.
05 / IDEAS
Debatica
A debate evidence, research, and round-strategy platform used by 2,000+ debaters.
Built web-crawling, source organization, and deduplication workflows to reduce research time and improve evidence quality.
02
More shipped work
School Pulse AI
School operations suite for leak detection, compost sorting, and resource forecasting in one dashboard.
Specialized Small-Model Subagents
Fine-tuned task-specific specialists paired with a custom harness for cost-efficient multi-agent coding workflows.
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Experience
Y Combinator Startup School
Incoming founder participant using customer discovery, startup credits, and rapid prototyping to test AI product and go-to-market assumptions.
Luxen LLC · Co-Founder
Leads product strategy and technical execution across AI agents, developer tools, automation, and research workflows. Converted 100+ user interviews into roadmap decisions, helped ship products to 5,000+ active users and 1.5M+ media views, and secured $48,000+ through programs including 1517 Fund, SoftBank, and BizWorld.
KEYS Research Intern · Precision Aging Network Lab
Analyzed vitamin D, omega-3, and exercise interventions against epigenetic aging clocks in R and Python; built reproducible notebooks, statistical plots, and data-analysis workflows; presented a poster talk to 800+ attendees.
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Research & papers
PRISM Alcohol Policy Impact Atlas
Mechanism-aware alcohol policy forecasting and scenario simulation, presented through a transparent public research dashboard.
Criminal Tribes Act and social exclusion
Historical analysis connecting colonial law to long-run social exclusion.
SSRN ↗S.A.B.E.R.
An AI-automated Chlorella vulgaris bioreactor for environmental remediation, combining pH, turbidity, CO₂/O₂ sensing, microcontrollers, and pump-control logic. Received an Arizona Science and Engineering Fair Grand Award.
ResearchGate ↗KEYS at Precision Aging Network
Analysis of vitamin D, omega-3, and exercise interventions against epigenetic aging clocks, with reproducible R and Python workflows.
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Distinctions
- 1517 Fund Medici Grantee
- Z Fellows Finalist (2024, 2025)
- $48,000+ in grants, startup support, and cloud credits
- BASIS Educational Ventures Scholarship · $5,000
- Top five nationally in NSDA Big Questions Debate
- Arizona State Champion in Speech & Debate
- NSDA Nationals qualifier
- SSRN paper ranked first in downloads
- Arizona Science and Engineering Fair Grand Award for S.A.B.E.R.
- Georgia Tech Stamps and Gold Scholarship semifinalist
- Science Olympiad Wind Power first place, Gopher Invitational
- Top 43, National Economics Olympiad
- U.S. Medicine Olympiad Honorable Mention
- ACT 35 · SAT 1540
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Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. Computer Science · Intelligence and Theory threads · planned 2.5-year graduation track through AP and transfer credit.
BASIS Peoria #1 High School in the U.S. ↗
3.99 UW / 4.87 W · ACT 35 · SAT 1540 · 15 AP exams: fourteen scores of 5 and one score of 4 · BASIS Educational Ventures Scholar ($5,000). Research Club President, Debate Captain, Science Olympiad Engineering Lead, and Student Council President.
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Events
Summer 2026Y Combinator Startup SchoolIncoming founder participant
Y Combinator Startup School 2026
Selected for YC Startup School founder programming, with access to founder sessions, startup credits, customer discovery, and rapid prototyping support.
MIT campusMIT BlueprintGreenhouseAgent / A.C.R.E.
YC × Google DeepMindGemma Voice Agents HackathonYConstruction
YC × Google DeepMind Gemma Voice Agents Hackathon
Spent a day with YC partners, founders, and builders discussing voice AI and on-device models, including conversations with the Cactus founders about local inference and developer ergonomics. Built YConstruction: a SwiftUI, Gemma 3n, Whisper, Supabase, and Blender/Bonsai workflow for construction defects.
University of AustinHigh School Palantir ConferenceAI debate + founder thinking
High School Palantir Conference
Fully funded University of Austin attendee; debated whether AI should make us optimistic or concerned, met Palantir engineers, and practiced founder-style decomposition of apparently impossible problems.
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Now
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
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