Elya Dolev received her M.Sc. from Tel Aviv University in 2011. She wrote her M.Sc. thesis under the supervision of Dana Ron. Her research interests include sublinear approximation algorithms and in particular property testing.

Dana Ron received her Ph.D. from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1995. Between 1995 and 1997 she was an NSF Postdoc at MIT. During the academic year 1997-98 she was a science scholar at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College) and at MIT. Since 1998 she has been a faculty member at the Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University. During the academic year 2003-04 she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Her research focuses on sublinear approximation algorithms and in particular on property testing.