UMD gave me opportunities that I had never imagined. Diversity, research focused curriculum and high end technology driven courses were the deal breakers for me to purse my Masters at UMD. 

Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity
Occupation: Associate Systems Engineer at Juniper Networks

Previous Education

Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication

Background

Kimberly Caldwell
Lead, Collaborative R&D at Spirit AeroSystems
M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering

Shreyans Doshi
Application Security Engineer at Ernst & Young
M.Eng. in Cybersecurity

Jiger Jain
Full-Time Student
MEng. in Cybersecurity

I was working as a full-time employee as a Cybersecurity Advisor at Deloitte in India and learned industrial experience from those 2 years out there. Looking ahead at my career I realized it would be great if I could take a break for a couple of years and pursue an academic approach in this field by joining a university which offers cybersecurity as a major course and achieve a formal degree.

Karan Gopani
Full-Time Student
M.Eng. in Cybersecurity

Starting my career as a Security Consultant and having worked for 2+ years for a cybersecurity startup, I have lead implementation projects and operations initiatives. Having that said, I cannot undermine the need for more focused education in security and this led me towards graduate school.

Muhammad Basit Ghauri
Full-Time Student
M.Eng. in Energy Systems Engineering

Brian Tarantino
President, Tarantino Engineering Consultants, PC

With more than 20 years of providing structural and forensic engineering expertise around the country, Brian Tarantino (M.Eng. ’00) is the president of structural engineering firm Tarantino Engineering Consultants (TEC).

Moriah Petersen
Program Management Specialist 
M.Eng Student in Energy Systems Engineering

Brian Folz
Senior Data Analyst at Volvo Group Trucks
M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering

My mechanical engineering education at the University of Maryland has permitted to pursue careers in both the aerospace and automotive industries. I've spend the better part of 14 years working with increasing levels of responsibility in design, test, and managerial roles. I'm currently growing into a new role in quality data analytics. 

Sneha Aravind
Full Time Student
MEng. in Cybersecurity

I have been in the telecom industry for approx. 9years, having seen technology advancing from CDMA to 4G/LTE network and with varied work experience in wireless as well as wireline domain of the telecom sector; I decided to switch to security domain.