Amir Abboud received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2017 under Virginia Vassilevska Williams. He was subsequently a Research Staff Member at the theory group in the IBM Almaden Research Center. Since 2021, he has been a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Amir mainly works in the emerging field of fine-grained complexity and algorithms, with a special interest in combinatorial problems on graphs and strings. His favorite sport is soccer, and on his favorite team was FC Barcelona.

Robert Krauthgamer (called “Robi” by his friends and colleagues) received his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science in 2001 under Uriel Feige. He was subsequently a postdoc in Berkeley's theory group, and then a Research Staff Member at the theory group in the IBM Almaden Research Center. Since 2007, he has been a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Robi's main research area is the design of algorithms for problems involving combinatorial optimization, finite metric spaces, high-dimensional geometry, data analysis, and related areas. His favorite sport since youth has been swimming. Once he swam across the Sea of Galilee in a 10km competitive race, and was the last one to arrive at the finish line.

Ohad Trabelsi received his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute of Science under Robert Krauthgamer. He was subsequently a postdoc in the same group. Since then, he has been a postdoc at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Ohad's research focuses on the design of algorithms, and their conditional lower bounds via fine-grained reductions. In particular, he likes to study problems of combinatorial nature such as Maximum Flow, Hamiltonian Path, and various other graph problems. His hobbies include playing soccer, video games, and the recorder, the non-flute musical instrument that according to many, is also more pleasing to the ear.