Dmitry Gavinsky is a research staff member of the Quantum IT group at NEC Laboratories America. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Calgary under the supervision of John Watrous and Richard Cleve. His research interests include quantum computing and computational complexity theory.

Alexander Sherstov recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Adam Klivans. His research interests include computational complexity theory, computational learning theory, and quantum computing. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research.