hi, i'm idhant ranjan, co-founder @ impulse labs, building sound and force sensing for self-labeling robot data. i work on physical ai, bio-intelligence infrastructure, neural interfaces, and the ml layer underneath.
right now i'm:
- building @ impulse labs.
- building vocl. surface emg to speech, real-time.
- for it: pete conrad scholar (1st globally, $1.16m), blue ocean (2nd in n. america), isef semi-finalist.
- northwestern, cell + dev bio. crispr screen across 600+ e3 ligases in zebrafish, hierarchical clustering of developmental expression.
- mizzou, quant finance. multimodal ipo prediction from s-1 filings.
- co-president, build-a-biz. 1,300+ kids, two wgn segments (1, 2), illinois to zambia.
previously i:
- built dlsci over 1.5 yrs at northwestern. bayesian changepoint early-warning for defi liquidity stress. recall 1.000, 129h lead time. iiai cdef 2026, ieee publication.
- presented ml + agent-based modeling for degrowth policy at esee 2026, ghent. certificate.
- adaptive feature importance for heterogeneous graphs. ieee iccsic 2026, ssrn.
- built low-cost egfet biosensors at niu.
- built airaware at lewis university. real-time air quality forecasting, sensor placement optimization.
- wrote the cost of knowing is approaching zero, we are approaching the end of the blank spot, and a generalist's guide to becoming useful.
and much, much more.
things i believe:
- chase asymmetric bets
- build things that matter
- optimize for usefulness
- ship relentlessly
- range is leverage
- think in systems