Pushing the boundaries of technology to create positive global impact.

Dr Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe has spent 25 years building digital products and leading data science teams. Her work spans commercial AI, published research and public benefit.

She was Chief Data and Technology Officer at Boon, where she led the build of a platform combining AI, psychology and human expertise to help organisations make decisions in high-stakes situations. Before that, at Zoopla and Hometrack, she led the data science team that brought machine learning into the UK's leading automated valuation model, used by 17 of the top 20 mortgage lenders. She began her commercial data science career at Channel 4, building ML products to improve the viewer experience, and went on to become Director of Data Science at Culture Trip.

Chanuki is co-founder of Beautifulplaces.ai, which grew out of her doctoral research at the University of Warwick and the Alan Turing Institute. There she used large online datasets and deep learning to study the relationship between the visual appeal of our surroundings and our wellbeing. Beautifulplaces.ai is building the world's first high-resolution map of beautiful places. Its iOS and Android apps and data API already cover more than 100,000 curated locations around the world, serving clients across property and travel.

Her research has been covered by the Economist, Wired, The Times, Newsweek, The New York Times and the BBC. She has spoken at conferences around the world, including the House of Beautiful Business, the Generative AI Summit in London, YOW! in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney, the World AI Summit in Amsterdam, and The Turing Presents: AI UK.

Before data science, she ran her own digital design consultancy in London for over eight years, working with organisations including the Tate, Design Museum, Dezeen, Zaha Hadid Architects, NESTA, the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Royal Academy, with professional experience in California, New York and Paris.

She holds a Data Science PhD from Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (2014–2018), and a Behavioural and Economic Science MSc with Distinction from the University of Warwick (2013–2014).