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Name	David E. Shaw
First Name	David
Last Name	E. Shaw
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Birthday	March 29
Birth Year	1951
Place of Birth
Home Town
Birth Country	United States
Birth Sign	Aries
Full/Birth Name
Father	Not Available
Mother	Not Available
Siblings	Not Available
Spouse	Beth Kobliner
Children(s)	3

David E. Shaw Biography

David E. Shaw is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on March 29, 1951 in United States.

Shaw earned a bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the University of California, San Diego, a PhD from Stanford University in 1980, and then became an assistant professor of the department of computer science at Columbia University. While at Columbia, Shaw conducted research in massively parallel computing with the NON-VON supercomputer. This supercomputer was composed of processing elements in a tree structure meant to be used for fast relational database searches. Earlier in his career, he founded Stanford Systems Corporation.

In 1986, he joined Morgan Stanley, as vice president for technology in Nunzio Tartaglia’s automated proprietary trading group. In 1994, Shaw was appointed by President Clinton to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, where he was chairman of the Panel on Educational Technology. In 2000, he was elected to the board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science served as its treasurer 2000-2010. In 2007, Shaw was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was appointed by President Obama again to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. In 2012, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and in 2014 was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

David Elliot Shaw (born March 29, 1951) is an American 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.

David E. Shaw Net Worth

David is one of the richest Computer Scientist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David E. Shaw's net worth $7.3 billion (February 2020). (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Net Worth	$7.3 billion (February 2020)
Salary	Under Review
Source of Income	Computer Scientist
Cars	Not Available
House	Living in own house.

Through the Shaw Family Endowment Fund, by 2014 he and his wife have donated $400,000 to the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, $400,000 to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and $800,000 to the Horace Mann School. From 2011 to 2017, the Fund annually donated $1 million to Yale University, Stanford University, Harvard University, Princeton University, and $500,000 to Columbia University and Brown University. The college donations represent over 60% of the Fund’s philanthropy. Shaw was on the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

According to the Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine’s annual ranking for 2014, D. E. Shaw, who made $530 million in 2014, and James H. Simons of Renaissance Technologies who made $1.2 billion were among the top 25 earners in the hedge fund industry. They are both “quantitative strategists who founded firms that build algorithms for trading.”

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In 2014, Shaw purchased several homes in Westchester County, New York and combined them into a mansion that received press attention.

Who is David E. Shaw Dating?

According to our records, David E. Shaw married to Beth Kobliner. As of January 13, 2024, David E. Shaw’s is not dating anyone.

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Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Height	Unknown
Weight	Not Known
Body Measurements	Under Review
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In 1988 he started his own hedge fund, D. E. Shaw & Co, which employed proprietary algorithms for securities trading. In 2018, Forbes estimated his net worth at $6.2 billion. He is also a senior research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia University, and an adjunct professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia’s medical school. Shaw is chief scientist of D. E. Shaw Research, which conducts interdisciplinary research in the field of computational biochemistry.

Facts & Trivia

David Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David E. Shaw celebrates birthday on March 29 of every year.

What is D. E. Shaw famous for?

D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. is a multinational investment management firm founded in 1988 by David E. Shaw and based in New York City. The company is known for developing complicated mathematical models and sophisticated computer programs to exploit anomalies in the financial market.

Who is the founder of D. E. Shaw?

David E. Shaw

Is D. E. Shaw private equity?

Quant pioneer D.E. Shaw & Co. is launching its first-ever private equity fund, the latest in a stream of hedge funds pushing into the lucrative pre-IPO space.

How do I invest in D. E. Shaw?

You can do so by calling over the phone or visiting at one of its offices. The firm is not publically traded, so you won’t be able to buy stock in D. E. Shaw.

How much do D. E. Shaw interns make?

DE Shaw Research comes second on CB Insights’ list with average internship compensation amounting to $10,500 while Jane Street follows close behind with $10,400.

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