Anurag Anshu is currently an assistant professor at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley and the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. This work was completed and initially published while he was at UC Berkeley. Before that, he was a joint postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He completed his Ph.D. at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, advised by Rahul Jain. He enjoys thinking about quantum complexity theory, quantum many-body systems, quantum Shannon theory and quantum learning theory.

Chinmay Nirkhe is currently an assistant professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Previously, he was a research staff member at IBM Quantum. Prior to that appointment, he completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, advised by Umesh Vazirani. This work was completed and initially published while he was at UC Berkeley. His research interests lie at the intersection of quantum information theory and complexity theory.