Suchana Seth CEO: At address of AI firm run by Suchana Seth, no office but a coworking space

She used to live in an apartment in Bengaluru’s Thanisandra area, but a visit there on Tuesday revealed she vacated the premises around four months ago. “She was living here with her son… We do not know where she is presently,” said a neighbour.

Seth was also an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, a research centre at Harvard University that focuses on the study of cyberspace.

The alum page describes her as “an AI ethics expert and a data scientist”.

The page, last updated on March 24, 2020, states: “She has built scalable data science solutions for startups and industry research labs, and holds patents in text mining and natural language processing. Suchana believes in the power of data to drive positive change… She is also passionate about closing the gender gap in data science… In the past, Suchana has been a Mozilla Open Web Fellow at Data & Society.”

It further states, “At Berkman, Suchana is studying ways to operationalise ethical machine learning and AI in the industry. Her interests include auditing algorithms for fairness, accountability and transparency in machine learning, monetising AI ethically, security vulnerabilities specific to machine learning and AI systems, and the regulatory landscape for predictive algorithms.”

Her Linkedin profile describes her as “an AI ethics expert and data scientist with over 12 years of experience in mentoring data science teams, and scaling machine learning solutions at startups and industry research labs”.

While her profile lists her as a research fellow at Raman Research Institute from 2008-2011, a source at the institute said she dropped out in 2010.

Her estranged husband, Venkat Raman, was in Indonesia at the time of the alleged murder, and he rushed to Bengaluru on Tuesday evening for his son’s post-mortem.