Zeyu Guo is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Haifa. Previously, he was a postdoc at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He grew up in northern China and completed his Bachelor's degree at Fudan University, Shanghai. He earned his Ph.D. at Caltech in 2017, where his advisor was Chris Umans. His Ph.D. thesis studies the problem of deterministic univariate polynomial factoring over finite fields. His research interests include algebraic methods in theoretical computer science, pseudorandomness and its connections with coding theory, algorithms in number theory and algebra.

Nitin Saxena received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2006. His advisor was Manindra Agrawal. He also spent stints at Princeton University (2003-04) and at the National University of Singapore (2004-05). He was a postdoc at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica in Amsterdam (2006-08) and a faculty at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics Bonn (2008-13). Nitin's long-term interests are in algebra-flavored computational complexity problems.

He has contributed to primality testing, polynomial identity testing, algebraic dependence testing, polynomial factoring and polynomial equivalence problems. Some of these works have been awarded the Gödel prize, Fulkerson prize, CCC best paper (2006), and ICALP best paper (2011). He enjoys interacting with, and mentoring, enthusiastic young researchers. In his spare (and non-spare) time he enjoys listening to music, watching movies, reading non-fiction, swimming and travelling.

Amit Sinhababu is a Ph.D. student at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His advisor is Nitin Saxena. Currently he is visiting Ulm University, Ulm, Germany and is affiliated with HTW Aalen, where his mentor is Thomas Thierauf. Amit grew up in West Bengal, India. He completed his Bachelor's degree at Bengal Engineering and Science University Shibpur, now known as IIEST Shibpur, and his Masters at IIT Kanpur. His current research interests are in algebraic complexity and computational complexity. He likes reading fiction and listening to Indian classical music.