Yet another Indian doctoral student has been shot dead - the third in a month - on a US university campus, raising questions about the safety of the American university environment.

The bullet-riddled body of 29-year old Abhijit Mahato was found inside his Anderson Street apartment in North Carolina's Duke University on Friday, nearly a month to the day after two other Indian Ph.D students were killed execution-style at Louisiana State University.

Police are still investigating the cause and motive for Mahato's killing, even as the December 17 LSU murders are yet to be solved.

Excerpted from his webpage:

I was born in Tatanagar, a small industrial town in Eastern India, India. My upbringing was in Kolkata; the City of Joy, the city of intellectuals, and much much more. My native language is bengali. We, Bengalis, have a very distinct and rich culture. 

My primary and secondary schooling were from Hindu School, Kolkata and completed my higher secondary (high school) education from the same School in 1997.
After getting a Mechanical Engineering degree from Jadavpur University, (batch of 2001), I joined the M. Tech. program at IIT Kanpur, and graduated in 2004. After graduation I worked at GE Global research center, Bangalore for two years. I am now pursuing PhD at the Duke University.

My Hobbies: Reading books (mainly classics and poems); Playing chess; Photography (Nowadays I hardly have enough time to justify them as my hobbies)

This is indeed a very lame introduction. But what else can I say about myself, except that I am the son of my parents, brother of my sister and brother-in-law of her husband?! And I have a cute and naughty nephew. Even that would be equally lame introduction.

I am the newest person to join DUKE Computational Mechanics Lab ((DCML). I am interested in nonlinear continuum mechanics problems and developing numerical methods for them.At present I am working on large deformation two body contact problems.