Subhash Khot is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at New York University. He has a Ph.D. from Princeton University, completed in 2003 under the supervision of Sanjeev Arora. His teacher and mentor at Vyankatrao Highschool, Mr. Vaman G. Gogate played a decisive role in directing his attention to mathematics. If not for Mr. Gogate’s guidance and some fortuitous turn of events, the chance of someone from the remote town of Ichalkaranji pursuing mathematical research was strictly nil. Subsequently, Mr. Gogate also mentored Amit Deshpande and Raghav Kulkarni (TCS), Abhijit Gadde (Physics), and Dinesh Bharadia (EE). He kept in touch with all his past students and continued to provide guidance on all aspects of life. He passed away in 2020 on Sept 5, which coincidentlly is celebrated as the Teacher's Day in India.

Dor Minzer is an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has a Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University, completed in 2018 under the guidance of Muli Safra, after which he spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Dor is interested in Hardness of Approximation, Analysis of Boolean functions and relations to adjacent areas such as extremal combinatorics and error correcting codes. He started his academic studies at the Open University of Israel, where he met Professor Vadim Greenstein who has greatly influenced Dor and his passion for math.

Dana Moshkovitz is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin. Her research is in Theoretical Computer Science. Much of it focuses on the limitations of approximation algorithms and probabilistic checking of proofs. Dana did her Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Her thesis co-won the Nessyahu Prize for best math Ph.D. thesis in Israel in 2009, and part of this work was recognized by the FOCS 2008 Best Paper Award. Dana went on to spend two years at Princeton University and the Institute of Advanced Study before joining MIT as an assistant professor. Dana is the recipient of the Jerome Saltzer teaching award of MIT EECS.

Muli Safra is a Professor of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. He has a Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute, completed in 1990 under the supervision of Amir Pnueli. He is one of the recipients of the 2001 Gödel Prize..