Alumni

For Jacqueline Deprey, a personal loss and a passion for problem-solving inspired Perpetua, a digital toolkit designed to simplify estate settlement.

Biotech executive Krisztina Zsebo (B.S. ’77, biochemistry) has spent more than four decades working at the forefront of therapeutic discovery, bringing life-changing drugs to the patients who need them. 

Jared Wolinsky (B.S. ’09, computer science) credits his University of Maryland education and the QUEST Honors Program for preparing him for his current role as group vice president of software engineering at SiriusXM.

Paik (M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’07, physics) helps researchers use the company’s increasingly powerful machines to solve challenging problems.

Postdocs bring valuable expertise, national prestige and additional research funding to UMD.

Kelly Fast (M.S. ’93, Ph.D. ’05, astronomy) is NASA’s acting planetary defense officer, overseeing U.S. efforts and global coordination to survey the sky, calculate orbits, study physical properties and identify possible impact risks of near-Earth objects.