Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

David Kane

Institute Fellow,

David Kane is the CEO of Kane Capital Management, a quantitative,
market-neutral, global equity hedge fund. He has a Ph.D. in Political
Economy from Harvard University and a BA in Philosophy and Economics
from Williams College. David served as an officer in the United States
Marine Corps from 1988 to 1991. He was a lecturer in Government at
Harvard in the fall of 2002. David's research interests involve
applied empirical finance using open source tools, especially R, the
use of which he introduced to the Government Department. David is a
member of the Eliot House Senior Common Room.