Ivan Hu is a second year Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison under the supervision of Dieter van Melkebeek. He is currently studying complexity theory.

Dieter van Melkebeek received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, under the supervision of Lance Fortnow. His thesis was awarded the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. After postdocs at DIMACS and the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he currently is a full professor. His research interests include the power of randomness, lower bounds for NP-complete problems, and connections between derandomization and lower bounds.

Andrew Morgan received his Ph.D. in 2022 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under the supervision of Dieter van Melkebeek. After graduating, he became a software engineer at Google.