Nikhil Bansal is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology. He received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai (1999), and obtained his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003 under the guidance of Avrim Blum. He is broadly interested in theoretical computer science with a focus on the design and analysis of algorithms.

Bouke Cloostermans received his Master's degree from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2014. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the same institution under the supervision of Nikhil Bansal.