Alyson Shotz graduated with a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1987 and an M.F.A. from the University of Washington in 1991. Her work, which explores perception, light, and space through sculptures, photography, and painting, is included in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MASS MoCA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Shotz, represented by Derek Eller Gallery in New York, has had numerous solo shows, including exhibitions at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She has received a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in painting, a Saint Gaudens Memorial Fellowship, and grants from Art Matters and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Shotz was a Yale University Artist in Residence (2005–2008), a Stanford University Sterling Visiting Scholar in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology (2012), and a MacDowell Fellow (2021).

Priyamvada Natarajan is a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University. Her research focuses on the universe's exotica—dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. Natarajan is noted for her fundamental contributions to two of the most challenging problems in cosmology: mapping the detailed distribution of dark matter and tracing the growth history of black holes over cosmic time in the universe. She holds undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics as well as a Master's Degree from the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at M.I.T. She was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where she was the first woman astrophysicist to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College. The recipient of numerous awards and prizes, her honors include a Radcliffe Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was also elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In addition to her appointment at Yale, she holds the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Visiting Professorship at the Dark Cosmology Center, Niels Bohr Institute, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is also the Chair of the Women's Faculty Forum at Yale, which brings together senior women faculty to further gender equity and scholarship for women at Yale. She is invested in the public dissemination of science and in promoting numerical literacy. Priya's research work has been featured on the B.B.C., NOVA, CNN, U.S.A. Today, and many other media outlets, including online sources. She frequently writes opinion pieces about science and has published a collection of poems.

Satyan L. Devadoss is a Professor of Computer Science and the Fletcher Jones Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of San Diego. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. His research in the study of shapes, ranging from particle collisions and cartography to origami and juggling, has earned him grants from the National Science Foundation and visiting positions at the University of California at Berkeley, Ohio State University, the University of Nice, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. A 2013 Inaguerual Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, he received the Henry Alder Award in 2007, given by the Mathematical Association of America to honor faculty whose teaching has been extraordinarily successful. He also received a Deborah and Franklin Haimo National Teaching Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 2016 and a Vizzies Award for Best Visualization in 2018, awarded by Popular Science and the National Science Foundation for interactive work on scissors congruence.