1. Yudi Pawitan has a PhD in statistics from the University of California at Davis and is currently professor at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
2. Youngjo Lee has a PhD in statistics from Iowa State University. He is currently professor emeritus of statistics at Seoul National University, an endowed-chair professor of data and knowledge service engineering at Dankook University, and vice president of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology