Zeev Dvir is currently a postdoc in the Computer Science department at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute in Israel in 2008. His advisors were Ran Raz and Amir Shpilka. He is interested mainly in questions in computational complexity that have a connection with classical mathematics.

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. As of 2005 he is a CS faculty member at the Technion. He is married to Carmit and has two children. His research interests lie in Complexity Theory, mainly in Arithmetic Circuit Complexity. When not working or enjoying his family he likes to read and play chess.