Ina Ganguli is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Director of the UMass Computational Social Science Institute. Her primary research areas are labour economics and the economics of science and innovation. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics, an Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, and a Faculty Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard University .
Sotaro Shibayama is a Professor at the Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI) at The University of Tokyo. He is also an affiliated researcher and previously worked as a Senior Lecturer at the Lund University's School of Economics and Management and CIRCLE. Shibayama’s expertise lies primarily in the "science of science," science and technology policy, R&D management, and scientometrics. His research investigates how scientific knowledge is produced, the dynamics of academic careers, and the organizational structures of university laboratories.