Hemanth Bharatha Chakravarthy

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India8 yrs 6 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founder of innovative legal AI startup jhana.ai.
  • Consulted on high-impact digital health projects for GoBihar.
  • First Indian Grand Finalist at World Championships in debating.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in legal technology and public health analytics.

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Economist, fictionwriter, and applied mathematician. Fellowships at Emergent Ventures (Tyler Cowen), Agami OpenNyAI Labs (Nilekani Foundations), Z Fellows, Jio GenNext, etc. At jhana, we are changing how legal works. We index the law, graph expert legal AIs, and help close the human agency layer from documentation to counseling and negotiations. Email at hemanth at jhana dot ai for jhana or at hbharathachakravarthy at gmail dot com for everything else. Similarly, https://jhana.ai or https://b-hemanth.com. PGP (GPG) fingerprint: F6D5 3EFD 6801 38CC 73B1 E68E D290 21E0 A546 B823; key: https://b-hemanth.com/pgp PRESS: https://jhana.ai/press/ BRAND KIT: https://jhana.ai/press/?brandKit=true “—மின்னொடு வானம் தண் துளி தலைஇ ஆனாது, கல்பொருது இரங்கும், மல்லல் பேர்யாற்று நீர்வழிப் படூஉம் புனை போல்—“

Experience

8 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Jhana

CEO & Co-Founder

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Built by the world in India, with love. hemanth at jhana dot ai

Bill & melinda gates foundation

Consultant

Jan 2021 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Delhi, India

  • An all-purpose “Q,” assisting Dr. Santhosh Mathew (Dy. Dir & Fmr. Addl. Chief Secy @ GoBihar). Built BMGF projects & worked a grant portfolio in the verticals of digital public health and algorithmic governance (procurement, government marketplaces, smart contracts).
  • Marquee project (digital health orchestration pitch) funded for GoBihar pilot at INR 3 billion.
  • My contract was extended thrice up to April 2022.

Government of india

Research Assistant to the Chief Economic Advisor (CEA)

Aug 2020 – Mar 2021 · 7 mos · Delhi, India

  • Writing team of the Economic Survey of India 2020-21, the flagship planning document of the Ministry of Finance presented in the first session of the Budget.
  • As RA to India’s CEA, Dr. KV. Subramanian, I produced ad hoc and regular economic reportage; I assisted with computations for COVID-related decision-making and PM Office consultations.

Reserve bank of india (rbi)

Computational Economist

Jul 2020 – Oct 2020 · 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Published institutional research with senior Bank economists, eg., the 2020 banking report (high-dimensional macro/financial modeling). A training program was uniquely designed for me where I spent 1-2 hours interviewing each of the ~30 specialized (Research) Directors. Collaborated closely w/ Dr. Snehal Herwardkar, Director of DEPR, and Bhanu Pratap, Research Mgr.

Good business lab

Summer Researcher under Professor Heather Schofield

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

  • Worked on tracking the impact of COVID-19 on Indian migrants/daily-wagers and on pre-trial component analysis for labor and behavior studies. Unsupervised learning, econometrics, and survey design.

Abdul latif jameel poverty action lab (j-pal)

Policy Analyst

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos · Delhi, India

  • Consulted for GoI and state governments on COVID-19 administrative data efforts; authored policy briefs on designing helplines and e-governance pipelines.

Harvard kennedy school

Research Assistant for Professor Michela Carlana

Dec 2019 – Mar 2020 · 3 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • Education policy research measuring and countering implicit bias in US community colleges.

Abdul latif jameel poverty action lab (j-pal)

Summer Associate

Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 · 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Consultant at large to the TN State Welfare Ministry; worked on the development and evaluation of the state women's helpline; worked on building administrative data and e-governance for the state government.

Indian schools debating society

2 roles

Indian National Debate Coach

Aug 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Manager/Judge for the first Indian team to win the World Championships; regular Indian squad selector, coach, and convenor.

Debater for India

Dec 2014 – Aug 2018 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • First to represent India four times at the world championships; first Indian Grand Finalists of the world championships. In this period, I also debated in the university circuit in India in "open" category tournaments—I was the Best Speaker at NALSAR and IITB, and I had a lot of fun hanging around with older and more interesting folks.

Education

Harvard University

Bachelor of Arts (AB)

Aug 2018 – Dec 2022

Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Sr. Sec. School

Jan 2003 – Jan 2018

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