Constantinos Daskalakis (addressed as “Costis” by friends and colleagues) is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He holds a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley, where his Ph.D. was supervised by Christos Papadimitriou. His research interests lie in the interface of computation with economics and probability, in particular the complexity of equilibria and fixed points, mechanism design, and machine learning.

Ilias Diakonikolas is an assistant professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He obtained a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University advised by Mihalis Yannakakis. His research interests lie in algorithms, learning, statistics, and game theory. The current focus of his work is on algorithms for machine learning.

Rocco Servedio is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. He graduated from Harvard University, where his Ph.D. was supervised by Les Valiant. He is interested in computational learning theory, computational complexity, and property testing, with the study of Boolean functions as an underlying theme tying these topics together. He enjoys spending time with his family and hopes to share a bottle of Cutty Sark with H. M. in the afterlife.