Anand Louis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech under the supervision of Santosh Vempala in 2014. Subsequently he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University for two years.

Yury Makarychev is an Associate Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of Moses Charikar in 2008. Yury did a postdoctoral fellowship at Microsoft Research and then joined TTIC in 2009.