Jacob Callahan

Research Assistant @Illinois Institute Of Technology

Chicago, IL, US
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WORK HISTORY

Aug 2025 — Present

Research Assistant @Illinois Institute Of Technology

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Chicago, IL, US

Collaborating with a team of 3 on predicting Bitcoin prices with Large Language Models (LLMs).– Establishing pipelines combining financial news, on-chain metrics, and market data, leveraging sentiment analysis to predict asset price trends over 5 years of data.– Designing and deploying a research tech stack with MLflow, Optuna, and MinIO for scalable experiments and hyperparameter optimization performing up to 150 trials sequentially.– Benchmarking predictive performance against econometric and ML baselines such as Sharpe ratio and MSE.

EDUCATION

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Illinois Institute of Technology

Master's degree, Data Science

2019 — 2023

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor's degree, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics

ABOUT JACOB CALLAHAN

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