Kai-Min Chung received a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University in 2003, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2011. His advisor was Salil Vadhan. After his Ph.D., he was a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University for three years and supported by a Simons postdoctoral fellowship in 2010-2012. He is currently an assistant research fellow at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His research interests include cryptography, complexity theory, and pseudorandomness. His work on parallel repetition for interactive arguments received a Best Student Paper award from the Theory of Cryptography Conference in 2010.

Michael Mitzenmacher is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University; from 2010 to 2013, he also served as Area Dean of Computer Science. He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from Harvard in 1991. After studying mathematics for a year in Cambridge, England, on the Churchill Scholarship, he obtained his Ph.D. in computer science at U.C. Berkeley in 1996 under the supervision of Alistair Sinclair. He then worked at Digital Systems Research Center until joining the Harvard faculty in 1999. His work on low-density parity-check codes shared the 2002 IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award and received the 2009 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award. His textbook with Eli Upfal on randomized algorithms and probabilistic techniques in computer science was published in 2005 by Cambridge University Press.

Salil Vadhan is the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University. He received an A.B. summa cum laude in mathematics and computer science from Harvard University in 1995, a Certificate of Advanced Study with distinction in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1996, and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from MIT in 1999 (under the supervision of Shafi Goldwasser). Vadhan was an NSF mathematical sciences postdoctoral fellow at MIT and the Institute for Advanced Study before joining the Harvard faculty in 2001. He has held visiting positions at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at U.C. Berkeley, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, and Stanford University, and was director of the Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society from 2008-11. Vadhan's research is in computational complexity and cryptography, with specific interests including zero-knowledge proofs, pseudorandomness, and differential privacy. His Ph.D. thesis on statistical zero-knowledge proofs received the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 2000 and his work on expander graphs with Omer Reingold and Avi Wigderson received a Gödel Prize in 2009. He has also received a Sloan Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named a Simons Investigator in 2013. He currently leads a large, multidisciplinary project on “Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data” at Harvard University.