Alexander Golovnev is an assistant professor at Georgetown University. Prior to this, he was a Rabin postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, and a research scientist at Yahoo Research. He received his Ph.D. from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University where he was supervised by Oded Regev and Yevgeniy Dodis. His interest in computational lower bounds was instilled by Alexander S. Kulikov—largely against his will.

Ishay Haviv is an associate professor at the school of Computer Science in the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. He received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University where he was supervised by Oded Regev. His research lies in the theoretical aspects of Computer Science and in their interactions with other fields like Information Theory and classical areas of mathematics.