# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-e-shaw
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:09:38.867Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-e-shaw"
name: "David E. Shaw"
slug: "david-e-shaw"
description: "David Elliot Shaw is an American billionaire, scientist, and founder of hedge fund D. E. Shaw & Co.. A former assistant professor in the computer science department at Columbia University, Shaw earned his fortune exploiting inefficiencies in financial markets with the help of early Internet networks and quantitative trading strategies. In 2001, Shaw turned to full-time scientific research in biochemistry, focusing on the molecular dynamics of proteins, using computer simulations."
tagline: "American computer scientist & hedge fund founder"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1951-03-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.42
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.284970666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-e-shaw/"
    handle:    "david-e-shaw"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.deshawresearch.com/people_chiefscientist.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw"
    title: "David E. Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D9%88"
    title: "ديفيد شو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw"
    title: "David E. Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw"
    title: "David E. Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw"
    title: "David E. Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%88"
    title: "دیوید شاو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw"
    title: "David E. Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw"
    title: "David E. Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4%EB%B9%84%EB%93%9C_E._%EC%87%BC"
    title: "데이비드 E. 쇼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5233207"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump