Hyderabad, Feb.15 (RAHNUMA): A 22-year-old Indian student Saketh Sreenivasaiah died under mysterious circumstances in California. He was found dead in California six days after he went missing. Saketh was pursuing his master’s degree at the University of California in Berkeley. He disappeared on February 9 of this month. The body was Saket was later recovered by the police. The Indian Consulate in San Francisco confirmed the New’s of the recovery of Saket’s body and it assured all assistance to send his remains back to India.
Saketh Sreenivasaiah hailed from Karnataka state . He was enrolled in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department at UC Berkeley.
His LinkedIn profile said that he was a Masters student in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering department at UC Berkeley, with an undergraduate degree from IIT Madras. “I’m passionate about deep-tech innovations in soft and active materials, semiconductors, and advanced materials,” his bio read.
Before moving to the United States, he worked with the Polymer Engineering and Colloid Science Lab at IIT Madras for close to two years. Saket’s roles included as an Undergraduate Researcher (September 2024 – May 2025) and as a Young Research Fellow (September 2023 – August 2024). He also worked as a Young Research Fellow at Unilever from September 2023 to June 2024.
