{"281321":{"#nid":"281321","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Doctoral Student Dies from Injuries in Explosion","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESaamer Akhshabi, a Georgia Tech doctoral student in computer science who was seriously injured Feb. 4 in his Midtown apartment, died March 6 at Grady Hospital.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAkhshabi, a 26-year-old student in the School of Computer Science\u2019s networking research group, studied under Associate Professor Constantine Dovrolis. A native of Iran, he graduated in 2009 from the University of Tehran with a B.S. in computer engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe was injured in an explosion inside his apartment and suffered third-degree burns over most of his body.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech\u0027s College of Computing is grieving the loss of Saamer Akhshabi,\u201d said College of Computing Dean Zvi Galil. \u201cSaamer\u2019s initial prognosis was very bad, but he fought for more than a month. Our faculty and students visited him regularly, often staying for hours at a time. This was an excellent, promising student, and all of us in the College deeply mourn him.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022On behalf of the entire Georgia Tech community we extend our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of Saamer Akhshabi,\u201d said President G. P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson. \u201cOver the past month, faculty, staff and students have expressed their concern in numerous ways, and we mourn the loss of a member of the Georgia Tech family.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe College has announced it will lead a fund raising effort to enable Akhshabi\u2019s parents to return Saamer to his home to Iran. For more information or to donate to this effort, email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hamid.garmestani@mse.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehamid.garmestani@mse.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESaamer Akhshabi, a 26-year-old student in the School of Computer Science\u2019s networking research group, studied under Associate Professor Constantine Dovrolis.\u0026nbsp;He was injured in an explosion inside his apartment on Feb. 4, and suffered third-degree burns over most of his body.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Incident on Feb. 4, 2014, resulted in third-degree burns over most of his body."}],"uid":"27299","created_gmt":"2014-03-06 15:35:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:58","author":"Michael Hagearty","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-03-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"281331":{"id":"281331","type":"image","title":"Saamer Akhshabi","body":null,"created":"1449244184","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:49:44","changed":"1475894973","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:33","alt":"Saamer Akhshabi","file":{"fid":"198934","name":"saamer.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/saamer_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/saamer_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1515611,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/saamer_1.jpg?itok=3DhLQ9Od"}}},"media_ids":["281331"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"88511","name":"akhshabi"},{"id":"1051","name":"Computer Science"},{"id":"88521","name":"doctoral student"},{"id":"171133","name":"student death"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}