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Two Sigma to move into Cornell's Roosevelt Island campus in September

Hedge fund manager has two cloud-computing experts teaching at the school as well Two Sigma Investments LP will ingratiate itself with New York's leading-edge technology sector by becoming the first corporate occupant of The Bridge, Cornell Tech's new campus on Roosevelt Island

The uber-techie quantitative hedge fund manager is expanding its footprint in the Big Apple to let its financial engineers to work side by side and collaborate with Cornell Tech students, researchers and professors in its new Collision Lab, well away from its main offices in midtown Manhattan. The lab also will serve as an incubator for startup tech companies backed by Two Sigma Ventures, a subsidiary of the $41 billion hedge fund manager.

The move is slated for September.

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