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 Ph.D. 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, Dr. Shaw has been involved in full-time, hands-on research in the field of
computational biochemistry. His lab is
currently involved in the development of new algorithms and machine
architectures for high-speed molecular dynamics simulations of biological
macromolecules, and in the application of such simulations to basic
scientific research and computer-assisted drug design. In 1994, President Clinton appointed Dr.
Shaw to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
and was elected to its board of directors in 1998. Dr. Shaw 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.