Johan Torkel Håstad is a Swedish theoretical computer scientist most known for his work on computational complexity theory. He received his B.S. in Mathematics at Stockholm University in 1981, his M.S. in Mathematics at Uppsala University in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 1986. He was the recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1994 and 2011 and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1986, among other prizes. He has been a professor in theoretical computer science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden since 1988, becoming a full professor in 1992. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2001. 

Shubhangi Saraf is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Computer Sciences at University of Toronto. She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and her PhD in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to joining U of T, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and a professor of computer science and mathematics at Rutgers University. She is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and the NSF CAREER Award.

Amir Shpilka obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 2001 under the supervision of Avi Wigderson. From 2005 to 2014 he was a faculty member at the CS department at the Technion. In October 2014 he joined the CS department at Tel-Aviv University. His main research interest is complexity theory, specifically algebraic complexity, but he is also interested in coding theory, communication complexity, algebraic property testing, analysis of boolean functions and pseudorandomness.

Madhu Sudan is a Gordon McKay Professor in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where he has been since 2015. Madhu Sudan got his Bachelors degree from IIT Delhi in 1987 and his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1992. Between 1992 and 2015, Madhu Sudan worked at IBM Research, at MIT, and at Microsoft Research. Madhu Sudan is a recipient of the Nevanlinna Prize awarded by the International Mathematical Union for outstanding contributions to mathematics of computer and information science, and the Infosys Foundation Prize in Mathematical Sciences, and the IEEE Hamming Medal. Madhu Sudan is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery,  the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Mathematical Society.  He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.