Igor Tulchinsky

Tulchinsky was born in 1966 in Minsk, Belarus SSR, Soviet Union.{{cite web == Career ==

Tulchinsky started his career in 1988 at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he held the position of scientist for over three years. Prior to this, he spent time as a video game programmer. He spent 12 years at Millennium as a statistical-arbitrage portfolio manager before he founded WorldQuant in 2007. with many locations in nontraditional financial centers, including Ramat Gan, Budapest, Mumbai, Ho Chi Minh City and Seoul. This is in line with Tulchinsky's stated belief that "talent is distributed equally around the world, opportunity is not." In 2014, Tulchinsky founded WorldQuant University, a US-accredited not-for-profit university, which offers an entirely free online master's degree in financial engineering and a data science module. In early 2018, Tulchinsky founded WorldQuant Predictive, an artificial intelligence platform company that sells predictive analytics to corporate clients. == Philanthropy ==

In 2017, Tulchinsky made a gift of $5 million to launch the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction at Weill Cornell Medicine. This research initiative aims to enhance current methods used in precision medicine by combining molecular profiling with financial algorithms. He is a Board of Fellows member at Weill Cornell Medicine. In 2025, Tulchinsky supported the Jerusalem Masters' chess tournament. In February 2026, Tulchinsky sponsored the transport and display of the Bayeux Tapestry for its planned exhibition at the British Museum in September of that year. == Publications ==

In 2015, Tulchinsky published Finding Alphas: A Quantitative Approach to Building Trading Strategies, and in 2018, he published The UnRules: Man, Machines and the Quest to Master Markets. In 2023, he released his third book The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk, co-authored with Christopher E. Mason. The Wall Street Journal, World Economic Forum, Milken Institute, Harvard Business Review, Institutional Investor, Calcalist, and Fox Business. == References ==