Yury Makarychev is an associate professor of computer science at TTIC. He received an MS in Mathematics in 2001 from Moscow State University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2008 from Princeton University, advised by Moses Charikar. Yury served as a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA, and Cambridge, MA. Upon completion of the postdoc at Microsoft, Yury joined TTIC in 2009. Yury's research interests include combinatorial optimization, approximation algorithms, and metric geometry.

Amir Nayyeri received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2012 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Jeff Erickson. He is currently an assistant professor at Oregon State University. His research interest is in algorithm design, particularly for problems in geometry and topology.

Anastasios Sidiropoulos, called “Tasos” by his friends and colleagues, is an assistant professor at the Computer Science & Engineering and the Mathematics Departments at The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008, advised by Piotr Indyk. His research focuses on developing algorithms for the analysis of graphs and geometric data sets.