Rahul Jain obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India in 2003. 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 cross appointment with CQT. His research interests are in the areas of information theory, quantum computation, cryptography, communication complexity, and computational complexity theory.

Shengyu Zhang received his B.S. in Mathematics at Fudan University in 1999, his M.S. in Computer Science at Tsinghua University in 2002, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Princeton University in 2006. After working in NEC Laboratories America for a summer, and in 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.