Matthew Turk is an assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences and also holds an appointment with the Department of Astronomy in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research is focused on how individuals interact with data and how that data is processed and understood. He received his doctoral degree in physics from Stanford University in 2009. He completed postdoctoral work at the University of California at San Diego and an NSF Fellowship in Transformative Computational Science at Columbia University. He came to Illinois in 2014 to work as a research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and as a research assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy.

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Plante holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design and a master’s degree in education. She has taught courses in professional development, entrepreneurship and self-promotion, and graphic design and was designated a Faculty Fellow by the Academy of Entrepreneurial Leadership at the College of Business.