Dr. Chandra Sekhar Bondugula

Founder, Mynaa AI. Doctor, technologist and student mental-health advocate.

Founder's vision

Every student in India deserves a doctor in their pocket - one that listens in their language, understands their context, and is on call at three in the morning when no helpline picks up. Mynaa AI is built so that no Indian student ever again has to face their darkest moment alone.

Areas of expertise

• Student mental health and suicide prevention
• Clinical AI and large-language-model safety in healthcare
• Supreme Court of India compliance for educational institutions
• NMC, UGC, AICTE and CBSE regulatory frameworks
• NIMHANS protocol implementation (C-SSRS, QPR, Safety Planning, Postvention)
• Multilingual clinical content across 23 Indian languages

About Mynaa AI

Mynaa AI is India's first comprehensive mental-health compliance platform for educational institutions. The platform was built to translate the Supreme Court of India's 2025 and 2026 directives on student mental health, the National Medical Commission's Monthly Action Taken Report (ATR), the UGC's Manodarpan guidelines and the AICTE Student Induction Programme into a single clinical workflow that any school, college or university can deploy in 24 hours.

Under Dr. Bondugula's direction, Mynaa AI today supports 23 Indian languages, runs 28 clinical machine-learning models, implements all six core NIMHANS suicide-prevention protocols (Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale, Question-Persuade-Refer, Safety Planning, Postvention, Case Studies and Risk Triggers), and operates five specialised Super Agents for early warning, counsellor copilot, compliance, research and wellness.

Why Mynaa AI was founded

India loses one student to suicide every 42 minutes. The Supreme Court of India has, through its 2025 and 2026 directives, ordered every educational institution in the country to operationalise student mental-health support at the institutional level. Existing systems - one or two counsellors per ten thousand students, telephone helplines that are unanswered after midnight, and paper-based reporting - cannot meet that mandate.

Mynaa AI was founded to meet it. Every student in India should have a doctor in their pocket - one that listens in their language, understands their context, and is on call at three in the morning when no helpline picks up. That is the standard Mynaa is built to.

Founder's protocols

Mynaa AI implements clinically-validated, NIMHANS-aligned protocols end-to-end:

• Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) — the international standard for suicide-risk assessment.
• Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) — gatekeeper training adapted for Indian hostel wardens, faculty and parents.
• Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) — six-step structured plan for at-risk students.
• Postvention — structured response to a death by suicide on a campus, aligned with NIMHANS guidance.
• SAHI (Safe AI for Health in India) — the AI safety framework Mynaa uses for clinical content review.
• BODH — the validation framework Mynaa uses for clinical-AI release readiness.

Founder's writing

Read Dr. Bondugula's founder essays:

• What is Mynaa — And Why We Named It After a Bird — what the platform is, what it does, and why it carries the name of the Indian Myna bird.
• Why I Built Mynaa — the personal story of losing a close friend to depression in MBBS and three decades of teaching Indian medical students and residents.

Citing Dr. Bondugula and Mynaa AI

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