Short biography: Stephane Durocher received his PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2006. He was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at McGill University in 2006 and at the University of Waterloo from 2007 to 2008. Stephane joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba in 2009; he was promoted to associate professor in 2014 and to professor in 2020. Stephane's research is in computational geometry, data structures, and discrete algorithms. His recent work includes theoretical results in geometric optimization, local geometric routing, geometric models for wireless communication, geometric depth measures, and location estimators for sets of moving objects. In 2013 Stephane received the Rh award from the University of Manitoba and the Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation in recognition of outstanding contributions to interdisciplinary scholarship and research. Stephane founded the Computational Geometry Laboratory at the University of Manitoba, known as the Geometric, Approximation, and Distributed Algorithms (GADA) Laboratory since 2016. 

Short biography: Carola Wenk is a Professor of Computer Science at Tulane University and the Chair of the Department of Computer Science. She also holds an adjunct appointment in the Mathematics department. Her research area is in computational geometry, with a focus on shape matching algorithms. Her work encompasses theoretical aspects including algorithms and topological data analysis, as well as interdisciplinary applications ranging from geospatial to biomedical data analysis. She is an expert on the Fréchet distance for curves, and her work on map-matching GPS trajectories and road map construction and comparison has laid theoretical foundations for practitioners in the field. Dr. Wenk has won research, teaching, and service awards, including an NSF CAREER award. Her research has been supported by grants from several agencies such as NSF, NIH, DARPA, and IARPA. Her research interests span a wide range of application areas including geospatial data analysis, intelligent transportation systems, geographic information science, biomedical imaging, and computational biology.

Short biography: Ian Munro is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and, until retirement, was University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Algorithm Design in the D.R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where he has been a faculty member since completing his PhD at the University of Toronto in 1971. His research has concentrated on the efficiency of algorithms and data structures. He has authored about 150 conference and 100 journal papers and has supervised 26 Ph.D.'s on the subject. Dr. Munro has held visiting positions at a number of major universities and research labs, including AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. His consulting activities have included work with government and several major computer companies. He has served on the editorial boards of CACM, Inf & Comp, and B.I.T., and the program committees of most of the major conferences in his area. He is a former Director of Waterloo's Institute for Computer Research. He is presently a member of the board of the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003 and made University Professor in 2006.