Salman Beigi received his B.Sc. at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran in 2004. He finished his Ph.D. at the MIT Math Department in 2009 under the direction of Peter Shor, and continued his research as a postdoc at the Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech. He has recently started a new job at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences. His interests include quantum complexity theory, quantum coding theory, photography, and playing daf, a traditional Persian musical instrument.

Peter Shor is a professor at MIT. He is known for his factoring algorithm.

John Watrous is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, and is a member of the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1998, under the supervision of Eric Bach.