Daniel Gottesman graduated from Caltech in 1997; his advisor was John Preskill. He is best known for his work on stabilizer codes and on teleportation of quantum gates. He has also worked on a variety of other quantum information topics, particularly fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum cryptography, and quantum complexity.

Sandy Irani graduated from UC Berkeley in 1991; her advisor was Richard Karp. Her research has focused on the application of algorithm design and analysis to computing systems. In particular, she has specialized in the area of on-line algorithms and their applications to scheduling and resource allocation. In the last few years she has been working in quantum computation.