[apollopower]

Renaissance Technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies

Founded by Jim Simons, the "Father" of quantitative research. The firm is famous for their significant year-over-year returns and notorious for only hiring PhDs from mathematics/physics/computer science.

There is an interesting book on how Jim Simons created the company and built his team of academics from the ground up, "The Man Who Solved the Market"

[zkid18]

Probably Edward Thorp is the "Father" of quantitative research.Since the late 1960s, Thorp has used his knowledge of probability and statistics in the stock market by discovering and exploiting a number of pricing anomalies in the securities markets, and he has made a significant fortune [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O._Thorp

[craze3]

Oh yes I remember reading this wiki before. I just didn't remember what the company was called. I even tried to research it by googling "renaissance time series prediction," and still couldn't find it.

I don't understand why I was downvoted? I don't think there was enough context for anyone (who's not in the field) to know what you meant, and I thought it would be useful for people like myself to get clued in.