Who is Neel Acharya, Indian student confirmed dead after he went missing in US university

Acharya was a double major in computer science and data science in the John Martinson Honors College, according to the university post. His LinkedIn profile, now memorialized, shows that he was earlier a student of St. Mary’s School, Pune. A friend described Acharya as a “loving, charismatic soul, and will be cherished by all of us.”

Chris Clifton, interim head of the university’s Computer Science Department, said Neel was a driven individual and academically talented in the university’s post. “He aspired to pursue numerous academic achievements and shared profound connections with friends. He was very proud of and cared deeply for his brothers at Triangle Fraternity. Neel could be counted on to reach out to others and make them feel included. He was an achiever and an includer, with his: most notable qualities being genuine kindness and unwavering compassion,” Clifton said.

Acharya’s death comes days after the death of another Indian student, Vivek Saini, who had recently earned an MBA degree in the US, was brutally killed with repeated blows from a hammer by a homeless man inside a store in Lithonia, Georgia, US.