Konstantin Makarychev, known as “Kostya” to his friends, is a Researcher at Microsoft Research. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of Moses Charikar in 2008. From 2007 to 2012, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research. In 2012, Kostya joined Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA.

Yury Makarychev is an Assistant 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.