Alexander Abanov is a physicist working in the field of theoretical condensed matter physics. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1997. He is currently a professor of physics at Stony Brook University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016, in recognition of his pioneering contributions to electronic condensed matter physics using topological and hydrodynamic methods.

Nicola Marzari holds the chair of Theory and Simulation of Materials at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), where he is also the director of the National Centre on Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials of the Swiss National Science Foundation. He heads the Laboratory for Materials Simulations at the Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland), and holds an Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen (Germany). Previous tenured appointments include the Toyota Chair for Materials Processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the first Statutory Chair of Materials Modelling at the University of Oxford (UK), where he was also the director of the Materials Modelling Laboratory. He is a Trustee and past Chairperson of the Psi-k Charity. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK), and a Laurea in Physics from the University of Trieste (Italy).

Martin T. Wells is the Charles A. Alexander Professor of Statistical Sciences at Cornell University and is Chair of the Department of Statistics and Data Science. He holds the position of Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Cornell Weill Medical School and is an elected Member of the Cornell Law School Faculty. Wells'; research interests include Bayesian statistics, biostatistics, computational biology, data science, decision theory, epidemiology, empirical finance, empirical legal studies, machine learning, and model selection. He has over 260 peer-reviewed articles in various medical, biomedical, law, and statistical journals. He has worked on research grants funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Health. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.