Eduard Hovy is the Executive Director of Melbourne Connect at the University of Melbourne. Prof. Hovy holds adjunct professorships in Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)’s Machine Learning Department and at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

Sophia Ananiadou is professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. She is the Director of the NaCTeM, ELLIS fellow, Distinguished Research Fellow at the AI Research Centre (AIST Japan), and Lead Researcher at the Archimedes Research Centre, Athens, Greece. 

Zhiwei Liu is a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. 

Christine de Kock is a Doreen Thomas fellow and lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. 

Peter Knight is professor of American Studies at the University of Manchester, and has also held visiting fellowships at New York University, Harvard, the Smithsonian, Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies.