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Stefan Abi-Karam is a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering under Prof. Cong (Callie) Hao as part of Sharc Lab. His Ph.D. work focuses on AI for hardware design and EDA, with a focus on FPGA and high-level synthesis (HLS) design flows. His research includes creating large-scale HLS/HDL datasets, benchmarking LLMs for hardware code generation, and integrating LLMs into HLS and FPGA design tools. He is also a full-time research faculty at Georgia Tech through Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) within the Cybersecurity, Information, Communication, Command and Control and Software Systems (CIPHER) lab division. He was awarded the inaugural LAD Fellowship to continue working on rapid design of domain-specific hardware accelerators using AI agents for HLS design.

Joe Wintergreen is an Australian video game developer. He has worked on many games, often credited as a "systems designer" or "technical designer." Currently, he is a "senior technical designer" at RiffRaff Games. He makes tools, tutorials, and resources. He is an expert in the use of the Unreal Engine. He has an internet blog.

This person is a PhD student from Australia. Their work involves trying to find loopholes in the "No Smooshing Theorem" for light, specifically using lasers to talk to astronauts. They are interested in optics and photonics, astronomy (particularly SETI), quantum sensing, metamaterials, engineered microbiology, and AI/ML. Outside of their PhD, they enjoy cooking, drinking coffee or beer, and tinkering with technology. They are a co-owner of Hopsters, a brewery in Enmore, Sydney. They are also a fan of Wildflower brewing, The Klosterbrauerei Andechs, and Monkish.

Luca Lombardo has a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy. His main interests are in succinct data structures, algorithms and data structures, high-performance computing, and Rust and low-level code optimization. For his Bachelor's thesis in mathematics, he presented a new succinct data structure for extending the classical rank query to Directed Acyclic Graphs. He is also a member of PHC, a group of students interested in technology, software, and hardware. They manage servers, websites, and services for the mathematics department students and organize seminars.

Sharif Shameem is the founder of Lexica, a company building creative tools backed by state-of-the-art generative models. Previously, he worked on Debuild, a low-code tool powered by language models. Before that, he built Vectordash, a peer-to-peer GPU cloud backed by Y Combinator. He lives in San Francisco and spends his free time experimenting with software design, researching genetics and longevity, and trying to build the future. He can be reached on Twitter at @sharifshameem or via email at samin100@gmail.com. He tries to respond to every message he receives.

Marcin Zelent is an entrepreneur with a background in software development and cloud architecture. He is currently the Founder of Viridate, a startup focused on helping companies with the standardization and evaluation of carbon data. Marcin is also a student of MSc Technology Entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He has experience as a Senior Developer at Kraftvaerk, where he designed and developed cloud-based solutions. Previously, he was the Founder and CTO of ArchitectureQuote, where he built a SaaS platform. Marcin is motivated and resourceful, with a strong interest in innovation and entrepreneurship. He is curious about the world and its future, and eager to learn and take on new challenges.

Andi Roberts is an executive coach, facilitator, and leadership development specialist. Andi works with consultants, internal advisors, and senior leaders in complex organizations, including NGOs and mission-driven enterprises. With over 30 years of experience working in and with organizations, Andi's background includes leading a healthcare business, managing in a global professional services firm, and building learning and events companies. Andi has taught in European business schools for almost two decades. Andi holds professional credentials in both coaching (PCC via ICF) and facilitation (CPF via IAF). Andi's academic background includes systems thinking, design and innovation, and online education.

Annie blogs. She finds things fascinating. She had a spot under her right eye that turned out to be basal cell carcinoma, which required Mohs surgery and eyelid reconstruction. The reconstruction involved taking skin from her left eyelid and grafting it onto her right eyelid. She did not have health insurance at the time of the surgery.

Dominik Weber is the creator of Lighthouse. He supports smaller businesses with their software development efforts, specifically companies where software is not their core business, but vastly improves their efficiency and leverage, and web-product companies bootstrapped by non-engineers. As a solo founder by choice, he combines skills relevant for building a successful product company, and creates a mental model for getting products from zero to one. He was previously at Vercel, where he managed a team of engineers and shipped product features. Prior to that, he was at Dynatrace and Bitmovin, where he was also a team lead. Earlier, he developed a web-based IDE at Springtime.

Connor Boyle is a former research programmer at Information Sciences Institute and a former M.S. student in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington. At ISI, he worked on the LESTAT project under Marjorie Freedman. At UW, he worked with Tao Yu as part of Noah’s Ark and with Thomas Schaffter on NLP Sandbox. He contributed to the development of Cartograph as an NSF grant-funded undergraduate research assistant to its creator, Shilad Sen. His projects include NLP Sandbox and NL-Augmenter, where he contributed transformations, filters, and bugfixes.

Nathan Brown is a second-year mathematics major and economics minor at UT Austin. He is a 99th-percentile chess player with a 1922 USCF rating and a 2150 chess.com blitz rating. He works part-time as an investment analyst and software engineer at MOZAYYX. Nathan is also the chief organizer of large-scale games, such as 10-day tag. He enjoys sports, including pickleball, volleyball, and foosball. He lived in NYC from 2007–2017 and has lived in Austin since 2017. He writes a blog and has written articles about organizing a 10-day game of tag, hosting a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag, Wikipedia racing, and journaling with Terminal and plaintext files. He enjoys receiving emails.

Seth Purcell helps founders build and lead exceptional dev teams. He fights complexity for a living. Over twenty years, he has led software teams in a variety of roles and industries. He believes engineering, product management, design, security, marketing, and operations are all different flavors of the same fundamental approach. He enjoys building great teams and cultures. His career goal has always been to do work he’s proud of, with people he admires, for a good purpose.

Zak Morgan is a 4th year PhD student in the department of Computer Science at UCL in London. He likes all things Tech, be it Software or Hardware, as well as Physics, Economics, Climbing and Running amongst other things. He loves being creative and has projects, photos, a blog and publications available to view. He is available for contracting.

Alex is a Senior Research Scientist on the AGI Safety and Alignment team at Google DeepMind. His research interests include deep reinforcement learning and agents. Previously, he conducted research in robotics. He graduated from the UC Berkeley Computer Science program in 2016, where he did undergraduate research in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. He was an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Outside of machine learning, he enjoys complexity theory, theoretical cryptography, and mathematical logic. In his free time, he plays card games and video games, including Magic: the Gathering and Dominion. He is a puzzlehunt enthusiast and has helped write multiple hunts, including MIT Mystery Hunt 2023.

Roy loves to write, both on his blog and in his journals. He also enjoys reading and brewing coffee, preferably artisanally as a pour-over. He has a soft spot for craftsmanship and skills that demand it. Roy writes small to medium sized essays about topics such as reading, writing, thought and self-improvement, as well as programming, and philosophy. He is currently a Tech Lead at the Dutch Railways, where he creates software. Before that, he was a Software Engineer at a few consulting companies. Before that, he flipped burgers.

Benyamin Limanto is a Christian who believes being Christian is a daily process of growing to be more like Christ. He describes himself as an ordinary boy with an extraordinary God to serve. He is a geek who likes instant noodles and playing Minecraft. Benyamin works full time as a Software Engineer. He is a contributing author at TahuTek, a Mozillian at Reddit, and contributes to the Joomla repository at GitHub as a silent reader. He also contributes translation at Transifex Virtuamart. He enjoys sleeping, writing articles, coding, and drinking green tea. He can be contacted via email at me@benyamin.xyz.

Alex Elias is a robotics engineer with a Ph.D. from RPI. His work centers on inverse kinematics, motion planning, and control for robot arms and mobile robots. He solves real-world problems with math. His research includes cuspidality, redundancy, and parallel mechanisms. He designed algorithms for 7-DOF elastic-joint arms to service satellites in orbit. He led development of 5 mobile robots for tent manufacturing and designed a GUI-based hybrid motion and force controller for robotic deep rolling.

Paul Smith is a software engineer and computer programmer living in Evanston, IL. He has been developing websites and applications professionally for more than two decades. He was a leader of the “tech surge” that fixed HealthCare.gov. He co-founded and was the founding CTO of Ad Hoc. He is formerly the CTO of Public Good Software. He was the Deputy Director of Technology at the Democratic National Committee from September 2011 through February 2013 and worked closely with the Obama For America 2012 campaign. He co-founded EveryBlock in 2007. He co-founded Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail in 2003 and continues to serve on the board. He intermittently attended St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he studied physics and philosophy. He is originally from Maryland.

Dany Bittel is a self-employed digital artist and developer from Switzerland. His background is in visual effects and animation, and he now specializes in interactive installations. He likes to experiment and work across different fields such as graphics programming, macro photography, and 3D scanning and modeling. Dany combines his artistic vision with technical expertise to develop custom solutions and interactive experiences. He is the creator of Miqula, a programming system for interactive content and games. Earlier in his career, he founded Elefant Studios, an animation and visual effects studio, and worked as a supervisor and director.

Andrew Marder enjoys playing with data and code. He maintains a website, Marder He Wrote, where he publishes posts on topics such as web analytics, the IndieWeb, and app defaults. He also writes about his web analytics journey and shares reviews of products like Proton. He has a newsletter where he provides weekly updates on his latest posts.