Michael A. Forbes obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2014, where he was co-advised by Scott Aaronson and Amir Shpilka. In his dissertation, he developed new deterministic algorithms to solve cases of the Polynomial Identity Testing problem. In 2017, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the interaction of randomness, algebra, and computation.

Amir Shpilka obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2001 under the supervision of Avi Wigderson. From 2005 to 2014 he was a faculty member at the CS department at the Technion. In October 2014 he joined the CS department at Tel Aviv University. His research interests lie in complexity theory, especially in algebraic complexity.

Iddo Tzameret holds a Chair in Computational Complexity at Imperial College London. Before that he was a professor at the University of London (Royal Holloway), a visiting scholar at Oxford University, an assistant professor at Tsinghua University and a research fellow at the Academy of Sciences in Prague. He received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Ran Raz and Nachum Dershowitz. His research lies in complexity theory, exploring different approaches to the limits of efficient computation and inference, both as a natural and a mathematical phenomenon. This includes algebraic, logical and combinatorial approaches in complexity, lower bounds on concrete computational models, proof complexity and satisfiability. Among his other expertise is the history of rock 'n roll.

Avi Wigderson was born in Haifa, Israel in 1956, and received his Ph.D. in 1983 at Princeton University under Dick Lipton. He enjoys and is fascinated with studying the power and limits of efficient computation, and the remarkable impact of this field on understanding our world. Avi's other major source of fascination and joy are his three kids, Eyal, Einat, and Yuval, and his granddaughter Tamar.