if you can be specific in which area you want to explore.
Text mining is a vast domain, which I feel can be divided in broadly three areas indexing/ searching, entity extraction, and relation extraction or natural language processing.
you can check…
I have been working in areas of machine learning and statistics for last 3 years. I have worked for places like Yahoo! Research labs. I have a strong background in modeling and data mining and strong programming skills(Java/C). Currently working as an analytics engineer for an internet start up in area of audience measurement.
I have done my Masters (CS) from Indian Institue of Technology Mumbai, under guidance of Prof. Sunita Sarawagi.