Per Austrin graduated from KTH -- Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, 2008; his advisor was Johan Håstad. His thesis focused on hardness of approximation for constraint satisfaction problems with connections to discrete harmonic analysis.

Subhash Khot is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at New York University, part of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He completed his Ph.D. in the summer of 2003 at the Princeton CS Department under the supervision of Prof. Sanjeev Arora. He was in Princeton for another year as a member of School of Mathematics, IAS and then an Assistant Professor at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech during Fall '04-Summer '07.

Muli Safra is a Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. He has a Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute, completed in 1990 under the supervision of Amir Pnueli. He is one of the recipients of the 2001 Gödel Prize.