Claude is a professor at the École de Technologie Supérieure and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 1990, working in the field of cryptography with Silvio Micali as his Ph.D. advisor and with Gilles Brassard as his MSc advisor. Claude was a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research program on Quantum Information Processing from 2002 to 2012 and is best known for his fundamental work in zero-knowledge proof, multi-party computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum teleportation. In 1993, along with Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, and others, Claude invented quantum teleportation. His 1988 STOC paper with David Chaum and Ivan Damgård on secure multi-party computation received the ACM STOC 30-year Test of Time Award in 2021. In 2013, he was elected as a Fellow of the IACR.

Yevgeniy is a Fellow of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research), and a Professor of Computer Science at New York University. He has worked in a variety of areas, including secure messaging and end-to-end security, random number generation, LLM watermarking, cryptography with biometrics and other noisy data, hash function and block cipher design, protocol composition and information-theoretic cryptography. Some of his work on Random Number Generation, Hash Functions and Secure Messaging has had real-world impact (e.g., for Zoom, Microsoft, Apple and Signal, among others). In addition to being an IACR Fellow, Yevgeniy was the recipient of 2021 and 2019 IACR Test-of-Time Awards for his work on Fuzzy Extractors and Verifiable Random Functions. He has also won the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Faculty Awards from AWS, Facebook, Google, IBM, Algorand, Protocol Labs, JP Morgan, Stellar Foundation and VMware, and the Best Paper Award at the 2005 Public Key Cryptography Conference.

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David is a cryptographer and a professor at the École normale supérieure. He was previously a professor at Panthéon-Assas University. David is well known for his work in public-key cryptography, especially around the cryptanalysis of digital signature schemes. He co-designed the Naccache-Stern cryptosystem and the Naccache-Stern knapsack cryptosystem. David is also a visiting professor and researcher at the Information Security Group of Royal Holloway, University of London, and in 2020, was elected as a Fellow of the IACR.