American mathematician and NSA cryptographer who co-developed the Baum-Welch algorithm for hidden Markov models, then applied that statistical machinery to financial markets at Renaissance Technologies.
Brought hidden Markov model methodology — originally developed for speech recognition and cryptography — into Renaissance Technologies' trading systems, providing the statistical framework for detecting market patterns in sequences of prices.
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