Who is Suchana Seth, the Bengaluru tech CEO arrested over 4-year-old son's murder in Goa?

Suchana Seth, the 39-year-old founder and CEO of Mindful AI Lab, a Bengaluru-based startup, has been charged with the murder of her four-year-old son in a service apartment in Candolim, North Goa. The shocking incident unfolded when a member of the housekeeping staff discovered a bloodstain in the apartment, prompting an investigation. Suchana had checked out on Monday morning, and the Goa Police alerted Karnataka authorities. She was detained in Karnataka's Chitradurga district while attempting to travel back to Bengaluru with her son's body in a bag, according to a Times of India report.

A police official said that Suchana had provided a Bengaluru address when checking into a hotel in Candolim, Goa. When a bloodstain was discovered, the police reviewed CCTV footage, indicating Suchana leaving the service apartment alone. When questioned, she claimed to have left her son at a friend's house in Fatorda, providing fake details when asked for the friend's address.

A top police official said that the motive behind the murder would be established only after her interrogation. "What she has told us till now is that she and her husband were estranged and that they are currently undergoing divorce proceedings," he said. The accused woman hails from West Bengal and has been living in Bengaluru, while her husband is from Kerala, the official said. Her estranged husband is currently in Jakarta (Indonesia) and he has been informed about the incident, he said.

Who is Suchana Seth?

Suchana Seth, according to her LinkedIn profile, is an AI ethics expert and data scientist with over 12 years of experience. She has been associated with prestigious organizations such as Mozilla Fellow at Data & Society and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre at Harvard University. Additionally, she has been a research fellow at the Raman Research Institute and holds patents in natural language processing.

Suchana Seth's educational qualifications

A physicist-turned-data scientist, Suchana has contributed to scalable data science solutions for startups and industry research labs, with a focus on text mining and natural language processing. She also holds data science workshops for organizations like Women Who Code.

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Suchana's research interests include auditing algorithms for fairness, accountability, and transparency in machine learning, ethical monetization of AI, security vulnerabilities in machine learning and AI systems, and the regulatory landscape for predictive algorithms. She holds a Master's degree in Physics specializing in Plasma Physics from the University of Calcutta and a Bachelor's degree in Physics (Honours) from Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata. She also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Sanskrit from the Ramakrishna Mission Institute Of Culture.