David E. Shaw

David E. Shaw serves as chief scientist of D. E. Shaw Research and as a senior research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia University. He received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1980, served on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Columbia until 1986, and founded the D. E. Shaw group in 1988. Since 2001, he has been involved in full-time, hands-on research in the field of computational biochemistry. The focus of his laboratory's research is the development of new algorithms and machine architectures for high-speed molecular dynamics simulations of biological macromolecules, and the application of such simulations to basic scientific research and computer-assisted drug design.

In 1994, President Clinton appointed Shaw to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Shaw is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was elected to its board of directors in 1998. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies.