Hello, I’m Ishan, and I own this website! I love anything related to software, especially reverse engineering and ML training.
Currently a student at the Bedford High School, I have already explored technical and research-driven topics relating to the use of AI, including during my time as a student volunteer at the University of Buffalo.
This blog serves as a platform to share my work, interests, and projects. I hope you enjoy reading it!
Some of my work is also available on my GitHub account, so feel free to check it out there.
Publications
- J. Mu et al., “Detecting Cyberbullying in Visual Content: A Large Vision-Language Model Approach,” 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Miami, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 1663-1668, doi: 10.1109/ICMLA61862.2024.00257
Projects
- Cyberbullying research project at University of Texas, San Antonio (Summer – Fall 2024)
- Part of a team of researchers at UTSA working with a cybersecurity professor
- Research involved exploring the application of AI models like GPT-4 to detect cyberbullying.
- Research resulted in an IEEE publication. My contributions as a co-author for the publication included literature review of the latest developments done in cyberbullying detection and preparing data for machine learning.
- DECA regionals finalist (December 2025)
- Proposed an innovation plan relating to silicon carbon battery technology
- Finished third place and advanced to the states competition, scheduled for March 2026
- Google Bug Report (July 2024) Issue #354355049
- Detected a bug in YouTube’s internal API where a client could spoof their country code and access videos that were geo-blocked in their country.
- Cybersecurity vulnerability in Bedford Public Schools’ Student Information System (May 2024)
- Detected a vulnerability in the school district’s SIS that violated student record confidentiality.
- Student data was vulnerable to a brute-force attack.
- Demonstrated this attack with a proof-of-concept script shown to the principal and head of IT
- The vulnerability was subsequently patched.
- Chrome extension: YTArchive (2023-2025)
- Chrome extension that enables a powerful YouTube archive system
- Helps track YouTube videos that were changed or removed by providing to access the originals
- Backend written using ExpressJS and TypeScript, Frontend written in JavaScript
- Was available on the Chrome Web Store at https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ytarchive/pciigjegbceolephbnghcmdeafhkdomk
- Achieved 200 downloads with 50 videos being indexed before being shut down
- Deployed on a DigitalOcean droplet using CentOS Stream 9
Coursework
- iD Tech Camps at MIT campus
- Completed a project that used a convolutional neural network to recognize handwritten digits
- John’s Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (qualified based on SAT score >90th percentile)
- Completed course “The Economics of Volatile Markets”
Activities
- Adult 1st degree black belt at Callahan’s Karate: Earned November 2025
- Schoolhouse SAT Bootcamp tutor
- Indian School of Language and Culture (Sishu Bharati) volunteer – 90 hours and 15 minutes accumulated as of Jun. 15, 2026