A UCSD alumnus was killed on Monday, Feb. 18 when he was hit by a train in Northern California. Samir Mathur, a 22-year-old graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt College, was struck by a Union Pacific Railroad Co. freight train in Palo Alto, Calif. at 9:30 p.m.

Mathur received a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science with a specialization in human computer interaction and walked for graduation in June 2012. Mathur’s former roommate Rohan Kazi said Mathur was planning on staying at UCSD to take enough courses to double major.

Mathur was a member of the Order of the Tritons. He had been in the process of creating a marketing club at UCSD to bring student entrepreneurs together because he felt that there were few resources for students interested in the marketing industry.

Kazi said that if he had to describe Mathur in one word, it would be “genuine.”

“His unfiltered authenticity shone through in everything he did, whether he was starting an on-campus organization or organizing an off-campus celebration,” Kazi said in a eulogy he wrote for Mathur.