Joel Wallenberg
Gateshead, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJoel Wallenberg is a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Science with 16 years of quantitative research experience who has translated computational and information-theoretic approaches from language change and memory into practical analysis of credit markets and fixed income. His academic work combines computational linguistics, diachronic corpora and cognitive neuroscience, and he has a track record building parsed historical corpora (e.g., IcePaHC during his NSF postdoc). Recently he has applied those statistical and modeling skills as a consultant and analyst for consumer credit default models, bond strategy and credit product development while contributing to market publications. Based in Gateshead, he blends rigorous academic methods with market-facing analytics, volunteering pro bono to support financial wellbeing initiatives. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between deep theory and actionable models, bringing unexpected cross-domain insight from language evolution to finance.
15 years of coding experience
B.A., Linguistics, B.A., Linguistics at Stanford UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvania
Icelandic, French, German, Yiddish, Hebrew
Github Skills (3)
nlp5
natural-language-processing4
penn-treebank1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
joelcw/constantentropy
Jul 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:116 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
joelcw/tyneside
Sep 2012 - Jan 2022
Contributions:398 commits, 104 pushes in 9 years 5 months
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