J. Doyne Farmer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

J. Doyne Farmer

American physicist and entrepreneur (b.1952)

Date of Birth: 22-Jun-1952

Place of Birth: Houston, Texas, United States

Profession: physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

J.
Doyne Farmer (born 22 June 1952) is an American complex systems scientist and entrepreneur with interests in chaos theory, complexity and econophysics.
He is a Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University, where he is Director of the Complexity Economics at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, and is also an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
His current research is on complexity economics, focusing on systemic risk in financial markets and technological progress.
During his career he has made important contributions to complex systems, chaos, artificial life, theoretical biology, time series forecasting and econophysics.
He co-founded Prediction Company, one of the first companies to do fully automated quantitative trading.
While a graduate student he led a group that called itself Eudaemonic Enterprises and built the first wearable digital computer, which was used to beat the game of roulette.