Gillat Kol is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton. She received her Ph.D. in 2013 from the Weizmann Institute, Israel under the supervision of Irit Dinur. Her main research area is complexity theory, with a focus on Information Theory and Interactive Communication.

Ran Raz received his Ph.D. in 1992 from Hebrew University under the supervision of Michael Ben-Or and Avi Wigderson. Since 1994, he has been a faculty member in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute. His main research area is complexity theory, with emphasis on proving lower bounds for computational models. More specifically, he is interested in Boolean circuit complexity, arithmetic circuit complexity, communication complexity, propositional proof theory, probabilistically checkable proofs, quantum computation and communication, and randomness and derandomization.