Bojan Tunguz
Bojan Tunguz is TabulAI’s founder and CEO, with a career spanning physics, teaching, machine-learning competitions, and applied prediction systems. He moved from Sarajevo to the United States in 1992, studied at Stanford and the University of Illinois, and taught physics before changing fields. After joining Kaggle in 2015, he learned through shared solutions and team competitions. His team won Home Credit Default Risk in 2018. He later worked at H2O.ai and NVIDIA, applying competition methods to model building and client work. He works at TabulAI, which focuses on structured data such as rows of transactions and customer records. His public posts favor familiar tools.
- Now at
- TabulAI
Timeline
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1992 and university years
Physics education
Tunguz moves from Sarajevo and studies physics and applied physics in the United States.
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Career change
From teaching to data science
He taught physics and held several kinds of jobs before moving into data science.
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2015–2018
Kaggle and a team win
He joins Kaggle and later wins Home Credit Default Risk with teammates.
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2019–2021
Industry work
Tunguz applies modeling skills at H2O.ai and NVIDIA.
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By April 2025
TabulAI
He is the company’s founder and CEO.
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October 2026
Public tools and competition record
He has Kaggle competition titles and favors familiar modeling tools in his public posts.
Sources and credits
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- TabulAI founder biography
- Bojan Tunguz: personal About page
- H2O.ai interview with Tunguz, 2019
- Tunguz: current Kaggle profile
- Kaggle progression system
- Tunguz reacts to Home Credit win, August 2018
- NVIDIA Grandmasters Q&A, 23 September 2021
- Tunguz on self-taught data science and familiar tools
- Transforming Education and Training, April 2025
- TabulAI manifesto