Sean MassungSean Massung is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also received both his B.S. and M.S. degrees. He is a co-founder of META and uses it in all of his research. He has been instructor for S 225: Data Structures and Programming Principles, CS 410: Text Information Systems, and CS 591txt: Text Mining Seminar. He is included in the 2014 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent at the University of Illinois and has received an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award and CS@Illinois Outstanding Research Project Award. He has given talks at Jump Labs Champaign and at UIUC for Data and Information Systems Seminar, Intro to Big Data, and Teaching Assistant Seminar. His research interests include text mining applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, and education. Read More Read Less