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Suchana Seth, the 39-year-old CEO of an AI startup in Bengaluru, was arrested on Monday night for allegedly murdering her four-year-old son at a service apartment in Goa. She was apprehended in Karnataka’s Chitradurga district while attempting to flee in a cab with her son’s body in a bag.
The motive behind the murder is yet to be fully determined, but initial investigations suggest that Seth cited an “estranged relationship” with her husband as a factor.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Suchana is 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. She is the founder of The Mindful AI Lab, a technical consultancy. According to the official website, company provides customised AI ethics advisory services. It also offers to audit AI systems and data practices and co-create responsible AI roadmaps for organisations at all stages of data maturity.
The profile also states that Seth was a research fellow in Raman Research Institute between 2008-2011, when she reportedly met her husband. However, a source from the institute said that she dropped out in 2010.
Seth is also one of the directors in Saatvik Machine Intelligence Technologies Private Limited, police have found. The firm was registered in September 2020 and continues to be active.
Her estranged husband Venkataraman P R is a data scientist with a Ph D in Physics and a top executive with a financial services firm. On August 8, 2022, Seth had filed a domestic violence case against her husband, during the course of divorce proceedings and a custody battle for their son.
Suchana was on the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics List in 2021 and has been a fellow (2017-18) and affiliate (2018-19) at the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard University, her LinkedIn profile adds.
According to the Berkman Klein Centre alum page, Suchana holds patents in text mining and natural language processing. “She is also passionate about closing the gender gap in data science, and leads data science workshops with organizations like Women Who Code,” it stated.
At Berkman, Suchana was studying ways to operationalise ethical machine learning and AI in the industry.
Her LinkedIn profile further states that she has been a Senior Analytics Consultant at Data Sciences Group, Innovation Labs.
The Goa murder case so far:
👉🏽 Suchana Seth, the 39-year-old CEO of an AI startup in Bengaluru, was arrested on Monday night for allegedly murdering her 4-year-old son at a service apartment in Goa.
👉🏽 Seth was ultimately caught from Karnataka’s Chitradurga district while trying to flee in a cab with her son’s body stuffed in a bag. How was the police able to catch her? It all began with the hotel staff alerting the cops of bloodstains on the floor of her apartment. The police then coordinated with the driver of her taxi, who managed to get her to the police station without arousing suspicion. Read the full report.
👉🏽 Conversing with Goa police in Konkani, a four-hour traffic jam on the way to Bengaluru, and the excuse of a quick washroom break – the cab driver who was ferrying Seth to her destination told The Indian Express how he managed to take her to the police station without arousing suspicion.
👉🏽 According to the police, Seth had booked the room from January 6 to January 10, but checked out earlier. Read our report on the findings of the probe so far.
👉🏽 Three days after her arrest, investigators said they have recovered a handwritten “note” on a piece of tissue paper purportedly written by her.
