UMass Lowell's program offers theoretical grounding combined with an industry-influenced curriculum that sets our graduates apart. Alumni of the program work in companies like Amazon, Bloomberg, EMC, Facebook, Fidelity, Google, IBM, Microsoft, MITRE and Raytheon. Graduates of the program work across industries, in large and small organizations – and start their own companies, with expertise gained through an entrepreneurship option. Bioinformatics option graduates work primarily in the life sciences sector, improving people's lives by making sense of the voluminous biological and health-care related data available today. Opportunities abound for students to work on industry-sponsored research projects and in well-funded research centers and labs, like the Robotics Lab. Students collaborate with their peers on projects and field competitive teams, like the one that developed the Rover Hawk robot that took first place at a NASA competition. And students work with and learn from faculty who are experts in AI and Machine Learning, Information/Systems Security and Big Data.