Saket Sarraf joined the University of Illinois and LEAM in Fall 2001. He is working towards the creation of a comprehensive economic model. The new model will weave changes in demands for utilities and services, investments, employment, income etc. together with changes in demographics, technology and interactions with other sub-models.

Saket earned his BArch (with honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1999. Before joining the University of Illinois, he also worked as an architect in a private architectural firm in Ahmedabad, India. As an architect, the larger issues of the human settlement patterns constantly challenged him and sparked his interest in planning. During the two years of professional exposure, he gained extensive insight into the problems and issues of the urban world.

In his free time, he enjoys reading, traveling, sketching, and photography