Ruiwen Chen graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University in 2014, advised by Valentine Kabanets, and then worked as a postdoc with Rahul Santhanam until 2017.

Rahul Santhanam got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago in 2005, advised by Lance Fortnow and Janos Simon. After stints at Simon Fraser University, the University of Toronto and the University of Edinburgh, he is now a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford. His main research interest is in complexity lower bounds.

Srikanth Srinivasan got his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He received his Ph.D. from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai, India in 2011, where his advisor was V. Arvind. His research interests include circuit complexity, derandomization, and related areas of mathematics.