Undergraduate and graduate student opportunities at Jump Labs at Research Park.
Jump Labs is a new initiative that will offer top UIUC students opportunities to push the forefront of technology across multiple disciplines and multiple organizations:
• Jump Trading --- a leading algorithmic trading firm.
• Jump Capital --- a venture capital firm with principal interests in a diverse portfolio of high-tech startup companies.
• Jump ARCHES --- a partnership between medical clinicians and engineers to stimulate the advancement of healthcare.
Students working on projects at Jump Labs will receive:
• Mentorship from industry leaders and world class experts in high performance computing and big data science.
• Access to petabytes of proprietary financial market data for potentially publishable, novel research.
• Opportunities to contribute to a stimulating environment of innovation and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Jump Labs projects will be related to the following areas:
• High performance computing and big data science research and development.
• Algorithmic trading strategy development, devising new predictive models by combining market intuition with rigorous statistical research on large proprietary data sets.
• Trading software application development, hardware and software engineering for low latency exchange connectivity, API testing, and automation.
• Jump Capital portfolio projects, ranging from natural language processing to mobile security http://www.jumpcapital.com.
• Innovative technologies using imaging, health information technology, novel materials, and human factors to enhance medical simulation and education.
To learn more about the challenging opportunities at Jump Labs, contact us atjumplabs@jumptrading.com.