Elad Haramaty is a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University in the College of Computer and Information Science, hosted by Emanuele Viola. He earned his Ph.D. from the Technion - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology under the guidance of Amir Shpilka. His research interests lie in a broad range of areas of theoretical computer science, especially in algebraic complexity. In his work he has studied mostly the structure, testability and applications of polynomials and algebraic codes. This paper was written while Elad was a Ph.D. student at the Technion.

Noga Ron-Zewi is an IAS-DIMACS postdoc with a joint postdoctoral position at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at Princeton and the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) at Rutgers. Her hosts are Avi Wigderson and Michael Saks. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at the Technion in 2014, under the supervision of Eli Ben-Sasson. Her research interests are in the theory of computation, with a focus on computational aspects of communication and coding. This paper was written while Noga was a Ph.D. student at the Technion.

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 to 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.