Bin Li thinks so.
Fickle humans drive financial markets, but many experts believe there are patterns in the chaos.
Wall Street often lures math whizzes like Li, a Ph.D. in mathematical physics, to devise new trading strategies by crunching price, volume, and other market numbers. Conn. Modeled on the human brain, his artificial neural network learns from the data it's fed and adapts. Li puts his knowledge of math and science together with finance to fine-tune computers for best results. If that continues, quants could be shipped back to campus en masse. Li says better technology ensures success.