Neeraj Kayal is an Indian computer scientist and mathematician. He received his PhD in theoretical computer science from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He did postdoctoral research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at Rutgers University. Currently he is associated with Microsoft Research Lab – India. He graduated with a B.Tech from the Computer Science Department of IIT Kanpur in 2002. In that year, he along with his co-authors proposed the AKS primality test which attracted worldwide attention, including an article in the New York Times. He was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award of IITK for his work in computational complexity theory. He is also a recipient of the Gödel prize, Fulkerson Prize and Young Scientist Award from the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) for his contributions in the field of arithmetic complexity theory. He is interested in problems related to Computational Complexity and Algebra, Number Theory and Geometry.

Anita Naolekar did her Phd from ISI Calcutta. Currently, she is a faculty in the Stat-Math division of ISI Bangalore. Her research interests are (non) associative rings and algebras, algebraic deformation theory, homological algebra and theory of operads.

B. Sri Padmavati is Professor and Former Dean, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hyderabad. She worked at IIT Delhi during 1997-2000 as a Lecturer and then as an Assistant Professor. She received the Ramanujan Memorial Award in Mathematics by Ramanujan Mathematics Academy, Andhra Pradesh, for the Year 2017. She is also a Fellow, Telangana Academy of Sciences. . Her research interests include Stokes flows and flow through porous media.

Supriya Pisolkar received her PhD in Mathematics from Harish Chandra Research Institute in 2010. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Tata Institute of Fundamental research, Mumbai. She is now an Associate Professor in the Maths department of IISER, Pune. Her area of research is broadly number theory.

Saket Saurabh received his PhD in Computer Science (2008), from The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai. Saurabh spent two years (2007-2009) as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Bergen, Norway, and is now a professor at IMSc and at Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen. His main research interests are in graph algorithms, parameterized algorithms and complexity. He has written more than 275 articles, graduated more than 15 PhD students, and mentored around 5 post doctoral fellows. He is a co-author of two books: Parameterized Algorithms and Kernelization theory of parameterized preprocessing.

He is a SwarnaJayanti Fellow in Mathematical Sciences (2018), Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (2020), Academia Europaea (2020), and European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS, 2021). He received the inaugural ACM India Early Career Researcher Award in 2020, and Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (SSB) for Science and Technology 2021 (Mathematical Science). He is also recipient of an ERC starting grant and an ERC Consolidator Grants in parameterized algorithms.

Sangita Yadav received her PhD in Mathematics from IIT Bombay in 2012 and is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani. She was awarded Dr. Prabhulal Bhatnagar memorial prize for being the most outstanding PhD student in Mathematics department, IIT Bombay for the year 2010-2011. Her research interests are in the field of numerical analysis and scientific computing.