Last Updated: 19 Apr, 2024 | Views: 241
Age: 73
Profession: Scientist
Other Profession(s): Investor, Hedge Fund Manager , Computational Biochemist
Famous For: Founding and managing D. E. Shaw & Co.
Higher Education: Stanford University (MS, PhD)
Net Worth: $8 Billion
About (Profile/Biography):
David Elliot Shaw was born on 29 March, 1951. He was the biggest American billionaire scientist and hedge fund manager. He was an American who founded hedge fund company, D. E. Shaw & Co, which was described by the fortunes magazine. He was also a computer science department assistant professor at Columbia University. In year 1996, he was known as the king quant by the fortune magazine because of his fast speed quantitative trading in firms pioneering role. In the year 2001, David Elliot Shaw was involved in full time scientific research in computational biochemistry.
David Elliot Shaw Early Life
• David Elliot Shaw was raised in Los Angeles, California.
• David Elliot Shaw was a theoretical physicist who was specialized in fluid flow and plasma and his mother was an artist and educator.
• David Elliot Shaw parents had taken divorce, at the age of 12 years.
• Irving pfeffer was his stepfather, who was the professor of finance and the author of efficient market hypothesis supporting papers
David Elliot Shaw Education
• David Elliot Shaw had completed his graduation from the University of California, San Diego. He completed his PhD from Stanford University in 1980.
• David Elliot Shaw after completing PhD, he became the assistant professor of the computer science department at Columbia university.
• In Columbia University, David Elliot Shaw conducted research in massively parellel computing with the non volatile super computer.
• Researched supercomputer was made of processing element in a tree structure form for the use of relational database researches
• He became the founder of the Stanford systems corporation, earlier in his career.
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