David E. Shaw, Date of Birth

    

David E. Shaw

American computer scientist & hedge fund founder

Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1951

Profession: computer scientist, biochemist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About David E. Shaw

  • David Elliot Shaw (born March 29, 1951) is an American computer scientist, and billionaire 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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