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IST Graduate Student Profiles

IST students are as diverse as the avenues available in IST for learning and research.The cultural and educational backgrounds of our graduate student body are broad ranging. As well, many bring with them professional experience in business and industry.The links below provide you a way to “meet” a cross-section of our graduate students and hear what they have to say about the work they are pursuing.E-mail links are provided so that you can contact them with individual questions.



Robert Cole
B.E.E., University of Delaware
M.S., University of Maryland,
University College


Umer Farooq
B.S., National University
Computer and Emerging Sciences,
Islamabad, Pakistan
M.S., Virginia Tech


Lunquan Li
B.E., Tsinghua University
M.S., University of Maryland,
Baltimore County


Matthew Peters
B.A., Juniata College


Nicolai Pogrebynakov
M.S., Belarusian State Univeristy
Informatics and Radioelectronics,
Minsk, Belarus


Michael Tyworth
M.I.S., Indiana University
B.A., Penn State