Vinod is a professor of computer science at MIT and a principal investigator in the IT Computer Science and AI Lab. He completed his Bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2003, and his PhD in 2009 from MIT. His main supervisor has Shafi Goldwasser. Vinod is seen as a world leader in the area of cryptography, especially within fully homomorphic encryption. He has co-authored many classic papers and which are seen as third generation of homomorphic encryption, including on "Trapdoors for hard lattices and new cryptographic constructions", and "Fully homomorphic encryption over integers". In 2022, he was a co-recipient of the Godel (Gurden) Prize. Vinod is also the co-founder and chief cryptographer at Duality Technologies.

Srini Devadas an Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His current research interests are in applied cryptography, computer security and computer architecture. Srini was awarded an a master's and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley - under the supervision of Arthur Richard Newton. He was an inventor of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), and, In 2014, he received the IEEE Computer Society's Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award for the invention of PUFs and secure single-chip processor architectures. In 2018, Srini received the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award for the development of PUDs and enabling the deployment of secure circuits, processors and systems. In 2021, he received the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice for the development of PUF, and the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award for fundamental contributions to secure microprocessors, circuits, and systems. In 2016, Srini won the Everett Moore Baker Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Also, in 2016, he was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow considered MIT's highest undergraduate teaching award.

Don Smith leads the CTU Threat Research group at Secureworks. His career starting with the creation of dns in 2005, and which was acquired by SecureWorks in 2009. He has extensive knowledge in cybersecurity and is seen as a world-leader in the field. Don is also the industry co-chair of the Strategic Cyber Industry Group in the National Cybercrime Unit at the UK National Crime Agency and a member of the UK National Cyber Advisory Board. He is also the co-chair of the Cyber League at the NCSC.