Suzuki grew up in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo to a family of engineers, scientists and academics.
[7] Suzuki started a MPhil degree in Electrical Engineering at the Universidade de São Paulo in the city of Sao Carlos.
[8] In 2015, Suzuki earned a PhD in Computer Science from University College London in a joint program with Imperial College Business School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her research on smart cities [9] supervised by Anthony Finkelstein.
[10] Her continuing academic work is at UCL where she serves as an Honorary Associate Professor in Computer Science.
[12] In 2012 Suzuki founded the UCL Society of Women Engineers and co-founded the Anita Borg Institute London Branch.
[23] Other notable awards include Winner of Twenty in Data 2020, the WES Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards 2017 (Women's Engineering Society),[24] Recipient of the Romberg Grant (Heidelberg Laureate Foundation), 100 Next Generation of Women Leaders (McKinsey), Doctoral Student Honour Fellowship 2013–2014 (Intel) and the 2013 Architecture and Engineering Prize of the British Federation of Women Graduates.