Suchana Seth is an Indian businesswoman and the CEO of Mindful AI Lab, an artificial intelligence startup. In January 2024, she made headlines for killing her 4-year-old son in an apartment in Goa.
Wiki/Biography
Suchana Seth was born in 1985 in West Bengal, India (age 39 in 2024). She attended DAV Girls High School, Gopalpuram, Chennai. After completing her studies, Suchana received a multimedia certificate in Digital Printing and Publishing and Digital Web Creation from NIIT. She studied at Bhawanipur Educational Society College for B.Sc. From 2003 to 2006, she received her PhD (Honours) in Physics. While pursuing her Bachelor of Science degree, she also studied additional subjects such as Mathematics and Computer Science. Suchana is pursuing her M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Calcutta from 2006 to 2008, specializing in plasma physics and astrophysics. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in Sanskrit from Ramakrishna Mission Cultural Institute, Kolkata. While in school, she served as dormitory captain and cultural secretary, and participated in various extracurricular activities, winning awards in quiz competitions, debates, creative writing and art competitions. While in school, she won the National Scholarship for Excellent Talents. When she was studying in class 10, she obtained CBSE Certificates of Merit in Sanskrit, Social Sciences and English.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′5″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Not much is known about her parents and siblings.
husband and children
Suchana Seth is married to Venkataraman PR, a data scientist with a PhD. In 2010, they had PhDs in physics and were executives at a financial services company. In 2019, they had a son. After the birth of their son, differences began to arise between them and they eventually separated and later decided to divorce. While their divorce proceedings were ongoing, Suchana filed a domestic violence lawsuit against her husband. In 2024, Suchana murdered her 4-year-old son in an apartment in Goa.
Suchana Seth and Venkataraman PR
Suchana Seth and her son
Profession
Suchana Seth started her career at the Raman Institute in 2008 as a Research Fellow. She worked there for about three years before joining Cactus Communications as a freelance editor. In June 2012, she started working as a Senior Analyst at Statistical Geschickten Biosciences (now InterpretOmics) in Bangalore for about 5 months. In November 2012, she joined the Innovation Lab’s data science group as an analytics consultant and was later promoted to the company’s senior analytics consultant.
Suchana Seth during a business presentation
From December 2014 to March 2016, Suchana worked as a Senior Data Scientist at Boomerang Commerce. At Boomerang Commerce, Suchana designs data-driven products for price optimization and intelligence. During this time, she also filed for two patents in text mining and natural language processing. She worked at the Data and Society Institute Ford – Mozilla Open Web Fellow for 5 months. In September 2017, she began working as a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, where she contributes to the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence and responsible machine learning. A year later, she started working at the company as an assistant. In 2020, she founded Mindful AI Lab in Bangalore.
Suchana Seth working in her office
Suchana is one of the directors of Saatvik Machine Intelligence Technologies Private Limited, which was registered in September 2020. An AI ethics expert and data scientist, Suchana has over 12 years of experience in mentoring data science teams and scaling machine learning solutions in multiple startups and industry research labs.
Killed her 4 year old son
Suchana Seth was accused of killing her 4-year-old son in a service apartment in Goa in January 2024. She reportedly strangled her son to death with a pillow or towel. According to some sources, Suchana Seth traveled to Goa with her son on January 6, 2024, where she rented a serviced apartment in the Candolim area of North Goa. After staying there for two days, she asked the apartment staff to arrange a cab to Bangalore as she had a job there. Although the staff advised her to take a flight to Bangalore as the taxi fare was Rs. 30,000 (much more than a plane ticket), Suchana said she just wanted to take a taxi. On January 8, the hotel staff arranged a taxi and she left for Bengaluru. When the hotel staff went to clean the room where Seth checked out, they found blood stains on the towels and immediately informed the Calangute police about the incident. They also told police her son was not with her when she left the hotel and her suitcase was heavy. When the police called her to confirm the blood stains and her son’s whereabouts, she replied that the blood stains were due to her menstruation, adding that her son was with her friends in Margao. She also provided her friend’s address, which turned out to be false. The police then called the taxi driver and asked him to take Suchana Seth to the nearest police station. Suchana was arrested by Calangute police from Chitradurga police station and brought back to Goa with her son’s body in her travel bag. She was subsequently remanded in custody for six days by the Mapusa Town Court.
Suchana Seth detained by police
During the course of the investigation, it was revealed that Seth attempted suicide by slitting his wrists with scissors. Two bottles of cough syrup were found in the apartment where she killed her son. Suchana was charged under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Goa Child Act. Although the exact reason for the crime is not yet known, police suspect Suchana’s strained relationship with her husband could be the reason behind the crime. Police also said Seth was unhappy with a Bengaluru family court order requiring his son’s father to meet him every Sunday.
Facts/Trivia
- In her free time, Suchana Seth enjoys photography, painting and traveling.
- Her family and friends affectionately called her Dora.
- Suchana is among the “100 Outstanding Women in AI Ethics 2021.”
Suchana Seth Named to 2021 List of 100 Outstanding Women in Artificial Intelligence Ethics
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