Mainak Sarkar
Dr. Mainak Sarkar is a former ME Ph.D. student of William Klug.
UCLA Shooting (June 1, 2016)
Sarkar wrote a blog article describing his hatred of Klug [ The blog article was deleted but Google cached it and it was thus retrievable.
Sarkar had broken up with his girlfriend Ashley Hasti, and they had stopped being friends on Facebook.
Sarkar was confirmed by law enforcement on June 2nd, 2016 to be the killer of William Klug during the UCLA Shooting. Sarkar used a 9 millimeter pistol to shoot the professor and then himself.
Career
Dr. Mainak Sarkar works as an engineering analyst at Endurica LLC. From 2005-2007 he worked as a software developer at Lucid Technologies. From 2002-2003 he worked as a research assistant a the University of Texas at Arlington. From 2000-2001 He worked for Infosys Ltd. in Bangalore, India.
Education
Dr. Mainak Sarkar graduated from UCLA with a PhD in mechanical engineering in 2013. For his PhD Dr. Sarkar took courses in Fracture Mechanics, Computational, Solid Mechanics, Finite element Analysis, Theory of Shells and Plates. While at UCLA he worked as a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses (Finite Element Analysis, Statics and Dynamics, Applied Mathematics) in Mechanical Engineering.
In 2005, he graduated from Stanford University with a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 2000 he graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur with a degree in Aerospace Engineering.
All that school work would drive me crazy too........