Henry Laufer
Henry B. Laufer is an American mathematician, investor and philanthropist. He served as the Vice President of Research at Renaissance Technologies.
Laufer joined legendary quantitative hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, founded by Jim Simons, in 1992.
He was its chief scientist and vice president of research until retiring in 2009.
Laufer still has a stake in Renaissance, which now manages some $68 billion.
Prior to Renaissance, Laufer was a math professor at Stony Brook University for two decades.
Laufer and Simons worked together at Stony Brook where Simons was chairman of the Department of Mathematics.
