Igor is the Founder, Chairman, CEO and Head of Research and co-CIO of WorldQuant, which he established in 2007 following 12 years working as a statistical arbitrage portfolio manager at Millennium Management. As CEO, Igor provides vision, leadership and both strategic and tactical guidance to Research, Portfolio Management and other parts of the organization. He is the author of multiple articles and books, including The UnRules. Igor is the Founder of WorldQuant University, a not-for-profit that offers both an online master’s degree in financial engineering and a data science module tuition-free. He founded WorldQuant Ventures, an early stage investment firm focused on disruptive companies in technology. He also founded WorldQuant Predictive Technologies, focused on providing its leading edge predictive solutions outside the finance sector. Prior to joining Millennium, Igor was a venture capitalist, scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories and video game programmer (the latter while still in high school). He holds an MA in Computer Science from the University of Texas, completed in a record nine months, and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the Wharton School.