vasanthan_ramakrishnan

Vasanthan Ramakrishnan is an experienced engineer, entrepreneur, and human rights & child safety advocate among others with a multifaceted career spanning various industries and roles. He is the principal consultant and founding partner at Ascend HSI Advisory Partners in Chicago, a non-conventional immigration coaching and consulting organization dedicated to empowering aspiring immigrants and immigrant entrepreneurs worldwide. Furthermore, he founded Feminist Pen Foundation in 2020, a 5X award-winning international nonprofit organization that works for global human rights advocacy in six different countries from four national offices—India, USA, Netherlands, and Dubai. In the last 4 years that he led Feminist Pen Foundation, he received 12 national-level awards and one international award alongside Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry Smt. Kiran Bedi for his work in human rights advocacy and nonprofit AI development towards digital child safety. As the Chief Scientist at CIET, a subsidiary of Feminist Pen Foundation that operates in Chicago, in 2021 he led the development of the world’s first cross-browser, multilingual cyber safety tool that can pick up on human-like context understanding, Aesopian phrase recognition, and multilingual slang terms to fight online abuse. He also made multiple cover appearances in magazines such as Prime Insights and Inner Review, and became the youngest scientist (at 26) to receive two honorary doctorates in humanities and technology (Hon. PhD, Hon. DTech). He is also one of the youngest Indians to be invited to the Atma Nirbhar committee overseen by Hon’ble Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister of India, which includes ministerial, gubernatorial, and secretariat-level members of the Indian Parliament. Due to his international acclaim, he has been invited to prestigious juries such as NASA, civilian award committees, and international business award juries including Globee, Stevie, Codie, Webby, Lovie, Anthem, and the Harvard Business Council (HBC).