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 coincidentally is celebrated as the Teachers' Day in India.

Dor Minzer is an Associate 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 2 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.

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..