An interesting NYT piece - A New Breed of Trader on Wall Street: Coders With a Ph.D
“And as these firms
have grown, so has the demand for a new breed of Wall Street trader — one who
can build financial models and write computer code but who also has the guts to
spot a market anomaly and bet big with the firm’s capital.
In a word, these
are not your suit-and-tie bond and stock traders of yore, riding the commuter
train into Manhattan. They are, instead, the pick of the global brain crop.
Here is a small sample of Jane Street’s main traders: Tao Wang (doctorate in philosophy and finance from the National University of Singapore), Min Zhu (master’s in chemistry, Columbia), Brett Harrison (master’s in computer science with a focus in artificial intelligence, Harvard) and Srihari Seshadri (bachelor’s in computer science, Carnegie Mellon).”
Here is a small sample of Jane Street’s main traders: Tao Wang (doctorate in philosophy and finance from the National University of Singapore), Min Zhu (master’s in chemistry, Columbia), Brett Harrison (master’s in computer science with a focus in artificial intelligence, Harvard) and Srihari Seshadri (bachelor’s in computer science, Carnegie Mellon).”