About

Neelakantha Bhanu is a renowned mathematician and Founder & CEO of Bhanzu, a math-learning platform that helps students become 4x quicker and better at math. With 4 World Records and 50 Limca Records to his name, Neelakantha is the World's Fastest Human Calculator and has won India's First Gold Medal at the Mind Sports Olympiad. Neelakantha's passion for math and his dedication to helping students learn math in a fun and engaging way led him to found Bhanzu. The platform has a meticulously designed curriculum that nurtures students' cognitive abilities and builds their core math acumen. Using personalized AI-aided methodology, Bhanzu builds confidence in students by enabling them to apply math in the real world. Neelakantha's expertise in math and AI has led him to work as a Research Scientist and AI expert. He has also held leadership positions at the Incubation Centre, SSC and worked as a Research Assistant at the Indian Institute of Technology. He has studied Analytic Number Theory under Dr. Tapas Chaterjee and researched "Bounded Gap between primes" by Yitang Zhang. Neelakantha has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from St. Stephen's College and a BS + MS in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics from the International Institute of Information Technology. He has given 6 TEDx talks, visited 23 countries, conducted 500+ stage shows, and impacted 2 million students. Neelakantha's passion for math and his dedication to helping students learn math in a fun and engaging way has made him one of the most sought-after mathematicians in the world. He is a Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 and continues to inspire students to love math and become better at it.