Rahul Jain obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India in 2003. His Ph.D. advisor was Jaikumar Radhakrishnan. He was a postdoctoral fellow for two years at the University of California, Berkeley (2004-2006) and for two years at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), University of Waterloo, Canada (2006-2008). In 2008, he joined NUS as an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department with a cross appointment with CQT. His research interests are in the areas of information theory, quantum computation, cryptography, communication complexity, and computational complexity theory.

Iordanis Kerenidis received his Ph.D. in 2004 from the Computer Science department at the University of California, Berkeley. His advisor was Umesh Vazirani. After a two-year postdoctoral position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he moved to France, where he now holds a Senior Researcher CNRS position, based at the Université Paris-Diderot. Since 2009, he has also been a long-term visiting scholar at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore. His research interests lie in the intersection of quantum cryptography and complexity theory.

Greg Kuperberg received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University (1987) and a Ph.D. in geometric topology and quantum algebra from University of California, Berkeley (1991). His advisor was Andrew Casson. Both of his parents are mathematicians, and every subset of the three have authored at least one paper, including the empty subset if one allows other coauthors. He has compiled a computer-assisted survey of complexity classes called “Complexity Zoology.”

Miklos Santha received his Diploma in mathematics in 1979 from Eötvös University in Budapest, and his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1983 from the Université Paris 7. His advisor was Jacques Stern. Since 1988 he has been a CNRS researcher, currently at the Université Paris Diderot, LIAFA. He is also a principal investigator at CQT in Singapore.

Or Sattath received his B.S. in Physics and Computer Science in 2005, and his M.S. in Computer Science in 2009, both from the Hebrew University. His Ph.D. advisors are Dorit Aharonov and Julia Kempe. He is the proud father of Nadav, his newly born son. His main research interest is quantum complexity theory.

Shengyu Zhang received his B.S. in Mathematics at Fudan University in 1999, his M.S. in Computer Science at Tsinghua University under the supervision of Mingsheng Ying in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University under the supervision of Andrew Chi-Chih Yao in 2006. After working at NEC Laboratories America for a summer, and at the California Institute of Technology for two years as a postdoctoral researcher, he joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor. His main research interests are complexity theories in various randomized and quantum models.