Smita Gupta

Smita is an advocate, legal technologist, and Process Architect at jhana.ai.

She uncovers the hidden logic of the judiciary: the messy, unwritten ways courts actually work, and turns them into clear technical roadmaps for AI.

She previously co-led OpenNyAI at Agami, building communities and Digital Public Goods at the intersection of AI, the judiciary, and law.

Awarded a scholarship by the Australian Government for a course on Executive Leadership at the University of Queensland. TA 101 Certified.
Ex-NLS Punjab.

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Work
jhana.ai
Director, GovTech and Public Sector

Deployed applied AI across courts, delivering 30× faster filing scrutiny at Egmore Commercial Court and 15-minute judicial dashboards at Karnataka High Court. Led business process reengineering (BPR) at Sikkim and Gujarat High Courts as Technical Product Manager.

Agami
Curator

Built India's largest Legal AI innovator community through events like OpenNyAI Labs and the AI Maker Residency, where issues like Grievance Redressal, and AI application inside courtrooms were built for.

OpenNyAI
Co-Lead

Co-led development of reference AI solutions and open-source legal NLP models, including JIVA, a judges' assistant that increased daily case throughput by 30%, and a SemEval 2023 benchmark-setting model built with Thoughtworks.

Jugalbandi
Co-Lead

Launched in December 2022, Jugalbandi was the first GenAI application to offer a voice-to-voice interface in Indian languages for accessing legal information and government scheme details. The partnership led to a multi-year collaboration with Microsoft and was featured in Satya Nadella's keynote at Microsoft Build.

On the Field

Chapter — Contributed a chapter to 'Technological Innovations in Law' - a book organised by Judge Anderson de Paiva Gabriel of the Court of Justice of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Training — Trained judges from across India, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka on AI DPGs and DPIs in Judiciary, in collaboration with UNESCO and CCG NLUD.
Essay — H Baruchel & S Gupta, 'Why We Need More Social Entrepreneurs Shaping AI', Ashoka Medium, 2024.
Guest lecture — Delivered a guest lecture to LLB and LLM students at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, as part of an elective course on "AI, Ethics & Law".
Training — Conducted a training session on Leveraging AI for Justice for 200+ Indian Administrative Service officers, 2023.
Presentation — Presented Jugalbandi at the G20 Summit, September 2023, to heads of state, foreign and Indian ministerial delegates, and 50+ foreign and Indian media houses.
Essay — S Gupta, S Karn (2022), "Open AI for Justice", Digital Debates: Observer Research Foundation CyFy Journal.
Research — P Kalamkar, S Gupta et al. (2022), "Named Entity Recognition in Indian Court Judgments".
Conference — Tiwari, S Gupta et al. (2022), "Corpus for Automatic Structuring of Legal Documents", LREC Conference.
Article — Rangin Tripathy, Smita Gupta, et al. (2022), "Who Gets to be a High Court Chief Justice in India?", Scroll.in.
Conference — Presented at the 3rd Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility Conference, hosted by UNESCO, 2022.
Forum — Represented India at the QUAD Critical and Emerging Technologies Forum, Japan, August 2024.
Network — Ambassador of the Global Acceptance Network / Ayra, 2024-present.
Agamishaala — Selected as the youngest participant at Agamishaala 2022, a justice leadership program with former judges, bureaucrats, professors, lawyers, and entrepreneurs.
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