Eric Jensen is VP of Development at Summize, a sentiment mining startup based in Northern Virginia. There, he develops novel and scalable opinion mining and search for blogs, user reviews, and other user-generated content on the web. He co-founded Summize after receiving his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology Information Retrieval Lab in 2006. Under a doctoral fellowship from America Online, his work with the lab focused on repeatable evaluation of web search effectiveness, query log analysis and classification, and parallel document clustering algorithms. He is the author of over 30 articles in refereed journals, scientific conferences, workshops, and magazines, and also a U.S. patent application.