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 as Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016.

Alessio Figalli, born in 1984, is an Italian mathematician who serves as a Professor at ETH Zurich and is the director of the FIM (Institute for Mathematical Research) at the same university. In 2018, he was awarded the Fields Medal, a recognition often compared to the Nobel Prize in Mathematics, for his work in the theory of optimal transport and its applications to areas such as partial differential equations, metric geometry, and probability. Figalli also holds positions as a scientific advisor and board member at various research institutes and universities and has received multiple honorary doctorates in recognition of his contributions to the field of mathematics.

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).

Tomaso A. Poggio, is a physicist whose research has always been between brains and computers. It is now focused on the mathematics of deep learning and on the computational neuroscience of the visual cortex. He is the Eugene McDermott Professor in the Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT and the director of the NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT. Among other awards he received the 2014 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience and the IEEE 2017 Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award. A former Corporate Fellow of Thinking Machines Corporation, a former director of PHZ Capital Partners, Inc. and of Mobileye, he was involved in starting, or investing in, several other high tech companies including Arris Pharmaceutical, nFX, Imagen, Digital Persona, Deep Mind and Orcam.

Kevin Wulwik is currently General Counsel at Forte Labs, Inc., a firm which focuses on the intersection between web3 and video gaming. He has held this position since 2021. Prior to joining Forte, Mr. Wulwik worked for almost two decades in the alternative investment management sector holding a variety of positions including at Eisler Capital as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, at Maniyar Capital as co-founder and COO and at the Tudor Group where he was a partner and co-General Counsel as well as Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to that Mr. Wulwik worked as lawyer for Deutsche Bank AG and for Allen & Overy. Mr. Wulwik holds a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, an MA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an LLM from Stanford University Law School focusing on corporate governance.

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.

Jerome Busemeyer previously was a Full Professor at Purdue University before 1997, and now is Distinguished Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences, Cognitive Science, and Statistics at Indiana University-Bloomington. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and the National Institute of Mental Health. He served as the Chief Editor of Journal of Mathematical Psychology, Associate Editor of Psychological Review, and he was the founding Chief Editor of the journal Decision. He is a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, from which he won the prestigious Warren medal in 2015. He became a fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, and he received an Honorary Doctorate from University of Basal in 2019. He was one of the pioneers to develop a new approach to cognition and decision based on principles from quantum theory, which are described in his book published with Peter Bruza in 2012 by Cambridge University Press (2nd edition published in 2024).

Harold Steinacker is a theoretical and mathematical physicist working in the context of quantum geometry and fundamental physics. He received his Ph.D. in physics from UC Berkeley in 1997, and he is currently senior scientist at the University of Vienna. His research aims to understand how quantum spacetime and quantum gravity can arise from matrix models, developing and using a framework for quantum geometry based on matrices. He authored a textbook as well as more than 100 research papers on the subject.