Scott Aaronson received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University and his PhD from UC Berkeley. He is known for his blog and for founding the Complexity Zoo. He publishes often in Theory of Computing.

Andris Ambainis received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and is now Professor at the University of Latvia. His research interests include many areas of quantum computing and quantum information theory (quantum algorithms, quantum complexity theory, quantum cryptography, pseudorandom quantum states, etc.), as well as the classical theory of computation.