Scott Patterson is a financial reporter who follows technology and complex trading strategies and how they affect Main Street. His work has also been featured in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and Mother Earth News. He is an alumnus of James Madison University. He lives in New York City.[1] He worked for six years at The Wall Street Journal newspaper and recently left the paper to write a book about the rise of electronic trading, markets and the use of artificial intelligence on Wall Street.
His first featured book is The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It.[2]