David E. Shaw
David Elliot Shaw (born March 29, 1951) is an American billionaire scientist and former
hedge fund manager. He founded
D. E. Shaw & Co., a hedge fund company which was once described by ''
Fortune'' magazine as "the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street". A former assistant professor in the computer science department at
Columbia University, Shaw made his fortune exploiting inefficiencies in financial markets with the help of state-of-the-art high speed computer networks. In 1996, ''
Fortune'' magazine referred to him as "King Quant" because of his firm's pioneering role in high-speed
quantitative trading. In 2001, Shaw turned to full-time scientific research in computational biochemistry, more specifically
molecular dynamics simulations of proteins.
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