Dr. Stuart E. Madnick is the John Norris Maguire (1960) Professor of Information Technology, Emeritus in the MIT Sloan School of Management, as well as a Professor of Engineering Systems in the MIT School of Engineering. He is also Founding Director of Cybersecurity—MIT Sloan’s consortium for improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity—and the Co-Head of the MIT Information Quality (MITIQ) Program. He is the author or co-author of more than 400 publications, including Computer Security, one of the first books ever published on the topic of cybersecurity.

Tim Kraska is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where he co-leads the Data Systems Group. He is also the Founding Co-Director of MIT Data System and AI Lab (DSAIL).

Julian Shun is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a lead investigator in MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research focuses on the theory and practice of parallel algorithms and programming, with particular emphasis on designing algorithms and frameworks for large-scale graph processing and spatial data analysis. He also studies parallel algorithms for text analytics, concurrent data structures, and methods for deterministic parallelism. Prior to joining MIT, he was a postdoctoral Miller Research Fellow at UC Berkeley. His honors include the NSF CAREER award, DOE Early Career Award, ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, the CMU School of Computer Science Doctoral Dissertation Award, Google Faculty Research Award, Google Research Scholar Award, SoE Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching, Facebook Graduate Fellowship, and best paper awards at PLDI, SPAA, CGO, and DCC.

John N. Tsitsiklis is a Clarence J Lebel Professor, with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS).

Caroline Uhler is an assistant professor in EECS and IDSS at MIT. She holds an MSc in Mathematics, a BSc in Biology, and an MEd in High School Mathematics Education from the University of Zurich. She obtained her PhD in Statistics from UC Berkeley in 2011. 

Her research focuses on mathematical statistics, in particular on graphical models and the use of optimization, algebraic and geometric methods in statistics, and on applications to biology.