Alexander Kulikov holds Ph.D. (2009) and Dr.Sci. (2017) degrees from the St. Petersburg Department of the Steklov Mathematical Institute. His Ph.D. advisor was Edward A. Hirsch. Currently, Alexander is a researcher at JetBrains Research and the Head of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence B.Sc. program at Neapolis University Pafos. His scientific interests include algorithms, circuit complexity, and Computer Science education. He coauthored three books and sixteen massive open online courses on algorithms and discrete mathematics with over a million enrolled students. In his spare time, he enjoys discussing the circuit complexity of the $\mathrm{MOD}_3$ function with Alexander Golovnev.

Ivan Mikhailin is a researcher at JetBrains Research. His research areas are circuit complexity, fine-grained complexity, and algorithmic theory. Ivan did his Ph.D. studies (2014-2019) at the University of California San Diego under the supervision of Russell Impagliazzo.

Andrey Mokhov is a software engineer at Jane Street Singapore, and a visiting fellow at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests are in applying abstract mathematics and functional programming to solving large-scale engineering problems. During his Ph.D. studies (2005--2009), Andrey worked on asynchronous circuits and concurrency theory under the supervision of Alex Yakovlev. In 2014, he became interested in functional programming and software build systems, which eventually led him to writing more and more code, and in 2019, he switched from academia to industry, joining the Jane Street's Tools and Compilers team. Andrey is originally from Kyrgyzstan where he helps to run the ACM ICPC regional programming contest.

Vladimir Podolskii defended his Ph.D. thesis in 2009 at Moscow State University advised by Nikolay Vereshchagin. He defended his Dr.Sci. thesis in 2021 at Steklov Mathematical Institute. His research areas are circuit complexity, its applications to databases augmented with ontologies, min-plus algebra. He is an Associate Professor at Tufts.