Jay Malavia

CEO

Chicago, Illinois, United States1 yr 8 mos experience
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The future is defined by those who have the conviction to shape it.

Experience

1 yr 8 mos
Total Experience
6 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Kairos

CEO & Co-founder

Aug 2025Present · 10 mos

  • Backed by a16z crypto, Geneva Trading, Illinois, and more

Cboe global markets

Quantitative Researcher

Jun 2025Aug 2025 · 2 mos · Chicago, IL · On-site

  • Engineered trading strategies for diverse market participants for new volatility-based derivatives
  • Developed new instruments
  • Prediction markets

Geneva trading

2 roles

Data Scientist

Sep 2024Feb 2025 · 5 mos · Chicago, IL

  • proprietary models v2

Data Scientist

Jun 2024Aug 2024 · 2 mos · Chicago, IL

  • proprietary models

Nasa - national aeronautics and space administration

Machine Learning Engineer

Aug 2023Jan 2024 · 5 mos · New York, United States

  • Engineered digital twin models of earth for complex climate forecasting
  • ai before it was cool

John hopkins university

Data Science Intern

Jan 2022Dec 2022 · 11 mos · Champaign, IL

  • Conducted joint Johns Hopkins–UIUC machine learning research on early Parkinson’s disease detection by developing ai/ml models to analyze wearable accelerometer signals, under Prof. Manuel Hernandez.

Us army

Scientific Researcher

Oct 2021May 2022 · 7 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

  • Research & Development

U.s. department of state

CBYX Scholarship Recipient

Sep 2020Jul 2021 · 10 mos · Cologne

  • Selected to represent the United States as a student diplomat and cultural ambassador through the Congress–Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) Program
  • CBYX Scholar (acceptance rate <1%)

University of chicago

Research Intern

May 2019Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Chicago

  • Assisted in highly transitional studies; Celiacs disease and bone regeneration (wet lab)
  • Induced bone lesions in mice & calculated dosage for maximum efficacy
  • genetic analysis by extracting ear clippings, sample denaturation, and graphically modeling qPCR amplification curves; presented findings to the Hubbell Lab (now NYU)

Harvard university

Research Intern

Jun 2018Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Boston, MA

  • - Studied the effects of gene manipulation on yeast cells

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2024Dec 2025

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor's degree — Data Science

Aug 2021Dec 2024

Universidad Pontificia Comillas

Abroad

Dec 2023May 2024

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