Eden Chlamtáč graduated from Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, in 2008; his advisor was Sanjeev Arora. He then spent two years as a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science, one semester as a postdoc at the University of Toronto and three semesters as a postdoc at Tel-Aviv University, before joining the faculty at Ben Gurion University. If memory serves, when he used to have spare time he would enjoy playing piano and studying languages which rarely did him much good.

Michael Dinitz graduated from the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2010, where he was advised by Anupam Gupta. He then spent three years as a postdoc at the Weizmann Institute of Science, hosted by Robert Krauthgamer and David Peleg, before joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. He is interested in approximation algorithms and applications to computer networking, and particularly in network design problems and problems involving metric spaces.