Suchana Seth (CEO)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Suchana Seth

• Suchana Seth is an Indian businesswoman. She is the founder of the artificial intelligence start-up Mindful AI Lab in Bangalore. In January 2024, she came into the public eye after murdering her 4-year-old son at a service apartment in Goa.

• In her school days, Suchana served as a house captain and cultural secretary. She actively participated in many co-curricular activities and won prizes in quiz competitions, debates, creative writing, and art competitions.

• While she was studying in school, she received the National Talent Search Scholarship.

• Suchana was honoured with Merit Certificates in Sanskrit, Social Science, and English by CbSE after her class 10 examinations.

• Suchana studied Mathematics and Computer Science as additional subjects while pursuing her graduation.

• She began her career in 2008 as a research fellow at Raman Research Institute and worked there for around three years.

• In 2011, Seth joined Cactus Communications as Freelance Editor and worked there for around a year.

• She then worked for 5 months at Geschickten Biosciences (now InterpretOmics) as a Senior Analyst – Statistics.

• In November 2012, she started working as an Analytics Consultant at Data Sciences Group, Innovation Labs. After a while, she was promoted to the position of Senior Analytics Consultant in the firm.

• In December 2014, she joined Boomerang Commerce as a Senior Data Scientist and there she designed data-driven products for price optimisation and intelligence. She worked there till March 2016. While working at the organisation, Seth filed two patents in text mining and natural language processing.

• She then joined Ford – Mozilla Open Web, a data and society research institute, as a fellow and worked there for around 5 months.

• In September 2017, she started working as a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University in Greater Boston, Massachusetts. At the firm, she contributed to the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence and Responsible machine learning. Later, she worked as an Affiliate at the firm for a year.

• Suchana founded the Mindful AI Lab in Bangalore in 2020.

• In the same year, she became the director of Saatvik Machine Intelligence Technologies Private Limited.

• Suchana holds an experience of 12 years in guiding data science teams and expanding machine learning solutions.

• In 2021, she was included in the list of ‘100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.’

• In January 2024, Suchana Seth reportedly murdered her four-year-old son by strangulating him with a pillow or a towel at a service apartment in Goa. Her crime came to light after the apartment staff went to clean the room, where she was staying with her son, as they found blood stains on the towel. Soon, the staff informed about it to the Calangute police. The staff also told the police that when Suchana left the apartment, her son was not with her and the suitcase that she was carrying was very heavy.

• Apparently, Suchana moved to Goa with her son for vacation on 6 January 2024 and rented a service apartment in the Candolim area in North Goa. On 8 January, she asked the hotel staff to arrange a taxi for her from Goa to Bangalore. The staff suggested her to take a flight as a taxi would have cost her Rs. 30,000. However, she insisted on going by taxi only. Later, a taxi was arranged by the staff and she left for Bangalore.

• After taking inputs from the apartment staff, the police called Suchana and asked her about the blood stains on the towel and her missing son to which she replied that the stains were due to her monthly periods. She further said that she has dropped her son to her friend’s house in Margao. On asking, she provided the police with her friend’s address, however, it came out to be fake.

• The police then called the taxi driver and asked him to take her to the nearest police station. They had reached the Chitradurga district of Karnataka by then. When the Calangute police reached there, they arrested Suchana and recovered her son’s body from her travel bag. She was then taken back to Goa and sent on remand for six days by a court in Mapusa town.

• According to the police investigation, after killing her son, Suchana tried to kill herself by slitting her wrists using a pair of scissors. However, she changed her mind and decided to move back to Bangalore instead.

• The police also revealed that there were two bottles of cough syrup recovered from the apartment in which she was staying with her son. Possibly, she gave and overdose of the syrup to her son and while he was asleep, she strangulated her.

• Suchana was charged under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence), and also under the Goa Children’s Act.

• Although the exact reason for the crime was not known, police suspected that Suchana’s strained relationship with her husband was a possible reason behind the crime. The police also said that Seth was unhappy with the Bengaluru family court’s order that the father of her son could meet him every Sunday.

• According to Suchana’s husband, they got married in 2010 and after the birth of their son, differences began arising between the two as Suchana was very possessive of her son. Soon, they got separated and filed for a divorce. In 2024, their proceedings were going on.

• In 2022, Suchana filed a domestic violence case against her husband.

• In her spare time, she loves doing photography, painting, and travelling.