Noga Ron-Zewi is a Ph.D. student at the department of computer science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, advised by Eli Ben-Sasson and Amir Shpilka. She has a broad interest in the area of computational complexity, especially in the areas of coding, communication and pseudo-randomness. A common theme in her works has been the application of tools and techniques from the mathematical area of additive combinatorics to open problems in these areas.

Madhu Sudan received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. From 1992 to 1997 he was a research staff member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. From 1997-2009 he was a faculty member at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. His research has focussed on Probabilistic Checking of Proofs, List-Decoding, Property Testing, and Semantic Communication.