Rocco Servedio is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University. He graduated from Harvard University in 2001, where his Ph.D. was supervised by Les Valiant. He is interested in computational complexity theory, computational learning theory, randomness in computing, property testing, and other topics.

Li-Yang Tan is an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 2014, advised by Rocco Servedio. His research is in theoretical computer science, with an emphasis on complexity theory.