Yonina C. Eldar is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (holding the Edwards Chair in Engineering), a Research Affiliate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Visiting Professor at Stanford University. She has received numerous awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, the Hershel Rich Innovation Award, the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation, the Weismann Prize for Exact Sciences, and the Muriel and David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is the Editor in Chief of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing and an Associate Editor for several journals in the areas of signal processing and mathematics. She is a Signal Processing Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Young Israel Academy of Science and the Israel Committee for Higher Education.

Gitta Kutyniok is an Einstein Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany. She has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton, Stanford, and Yale Universities, and a Full Professor at the Universitat Osnabruck, Germany. Her research and teaching has been recognized by various awards, including a Heisenberg Fellowship and the von Kaven Prize by the German Research Foundation, an Einstein Chair by the Einstein Foundation in Berlin, awards by the Universitat Paderborn and the Justus-Liebig Universitat Giessen for Excellence Research, as well as the Weierstrass Prize for Outstanding Teaching. She is an Associate Editor and also Corresponding Editor for several journals in the areas of applied mathematics.