Art Graesser is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, as well as Honorary Research Fellow at University of Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at San Diego. His research interests question asking and answering, tutoring, text comprehension, inference generation, conversation, reading, problem solving, memory, emotions, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and human-computer interaction. He served as editor of the journal Discourse Processes (1996–2005) and Journal of Educational Psychology (2009-2014), as well as presidents of 4 societies, including Society for Text and Discourse (2007-2010), the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education (2007-2009), and the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2012-13). He and his colleagues have developed and tested software in learning, language, and discourse technologies, including those that hold a conversation in natural language and interact with multimedia (such as AutoTutor) and those that analyze text on multiple levels of language and discourse (Coh-Metrix and Question Understanding Aid -- QUAID). He has served on five panels with the National Academy of Sciences and four OECD expert panels on problem solving, namely PIAAC 2011 Problem Solving in Technology Rich Environments, PISA 2012 Complex Problem Solving, PISA 2015 Collaborative Problem Solving (chair), and PIAAC Adaptive Problem Solving 2021. He has received lifetime achievement awards from three societies (Artificial Intelligence in Education, American Psychological Association, and Society for Text and Discourse) and a McGraw Prize in Education in the area of learning sciences.

Kevin Bowyer is the Schubmehl-Prein Family Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Professor Bowyer was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science “for distinguished contributions to the field of computer vision and pattern recognition, biometrics, object recognition and data science”, a Fellow of the IEEE “for contributions to algorithms for recognizing objects in images”, and a Fellow of the IAPR “for contributions to computer vision, pattern recognition and biometrics”. He has received a Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society “for pioneering contributions to the science and engineering of biometrics”, and IEEE Biometrics Council’s Meritorious Service Award and Leadership Award. Professor Bowyer has served as Editor-In-Chief of both the IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science and the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Professor Bowyer has served as General Chair or Program Chair of conferences such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, and Face and Gesture Recognition, and is one of the founding General Chairs of the International Joint Conference on Biometrics conference series.

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Haiying Shen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. During her 2024 sabbatical, she served as a Consulting Researcher at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, where she focused on LLM systems. Her research area is distributed systems, with a focus on ML/LLM systems, cloud computing, edge computing, and cyber-physical systems (CPS). Dr. Shen has made significant contributions to her field, with an H-index of 52 and over 380 publications in top conferences and journals such as SIGCOMM, OSDI, EuroSys, SoCC, ASPLOS, CoNext, Infocom, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Her work has received the George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award (2021), best paper awards at CloudCom (2016) and NAS (2018), a best paper runner-up award at ICCCN (2015), best paper award nominations at ICPP (2021), MASS (2011), and CCGrid (2009), and a best-in- session presentation award at INFOCOM (2017). She has also received several prestigious awards, including the Microsoft Faculty Fellowship Award (2010), IEEE TCSC Mid-Career Award (2015), IBM Faculty Award (2015), NSF CAREER Award (2013), and Sigma Xi Clemson Chapter Young Investigator Award (2013). Dr. Shen serves as an Associate Editor for TON, TMC, and IEEE Networking Letters (NL). She also has served as program co-chair and general co-chair for several international conferences and has participated in the program committees of numerous leading conferences.