Elbert Du is currently a Ph.D. student studying Computer Science at Harvard University. He was first introduced to the world of academic mathematics when he was in fifth grade, and he began attending the late Professor Paul Sally Jr.’s Young Scholars’ Program at the University of Chicago. Elbert is now interested in studying complexity, differential privacy, and adaptive data analysis. In his spare time, Elbert enjoys reading, solving chess puzzles, and playing video games.

Michael Mitzenmacher is a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. He is the coauthor of a well-known textbook on randomized algorithms and probabilistic techniques in computer science with Eli Upfal. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow.

David Woodruff is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He works on the foundations of data science, specifically in data streams, machine learning, randomized numerical linear algebra, sketching and sparse recovery.

Guang Yang is currently the research director at Conflux, a startup blockchain project initiated by Fan Long and Andrew Yao. Before joining Conflux, he was an assistant professor at Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences.