Andrew G. Alleyne is the dean of the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering (CSE). He was previously at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he was the Ralph M. and Catherine V. Fisher Professor in Engineering and director of a multi-university research center sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Anuradha Annaswamy received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 1985. She has been a member of the faculty at Yale, Boston University, and MIT where currently she is the director of the Active-Adaptive Control Laboratory and a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Dawn Tilbury is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and has a courtesy appointment in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley.

George J. Pappas is the UPS Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Departments of Computer and Information Sciences, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.

John Lygeros currently serves as the Professor for Computation and Control and the Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the IET and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Mark Spong is a robotics and engineering researcher. He is a Professor of Systems Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering and the dean of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Tamer Bașar is the Director of the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and holds the academic positions of Swanlund Endowed Chair, Professor with the Center for Advanced Study, the Coordinated Science Laboratory and the Information Trust Institute.