Stephen H. Koslow is the Director Office on Neuroinformatics, Associate Director, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health. He also coordinates the Human Brain Project, a multi-government agency informatics initiative. He earned his PhD from the Division of Biological Sciences, Department of Pharmacology, University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American College of Medical Informatics, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He has been awarded several distinctions, including the Public Health Service Special Recognition Award, two NIH Director's Awards, the Presidents Award from the International Neural Network Society, and the President Award from the International Neural Network Society. He has 72 publications in referred journals, 20 invited chapters in books and edited 13 books.

Shankar Subramaniam is a Professor of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Biology and Director of the Bioinformatics Graduate Program at the University of California at San Diego. He also has adjunct Professorships at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He has previously served as Director of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Co-Director of the W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics at UIUC. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and is a recipient of Smithsonian Foundation and Association of Laboratory Automation Awards.