Zaré Baghdasarian has over 25 years of experience as a technologist, entrepreneur, and manager. He holds an Executive MBA from TRIUM, an MBA degree jointly delivered by New York University (NYU), the London School of Economics (LSE) and HEC School of Management Paris, a Masters degree in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, an Executive Management degree from UCLA Anderson School of Management, and BSEE from Villanova University.

Manish Jain is a world-recognized leader in game-theoretic studies, specifically focusing on large-scale optimization in competitive and adversarial settings. He received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California in 2013, where he was a member of the TEAMCORE Research group. Awarded the RIST Prize by the Military Operations Research Society for his work with LAX, FAMS, and TSA.

James Pita is a former Operations Research Associate at RAND Corporation, specializing in military and cyber applications. He received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California in 2012, where he was a member of TEAMCORE Research group. He received a commendation from the City of LA for the development & deployment of applications utilizing game-theoretic techniques for resource allocation.

Ripple Goyal received her MS degree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California in 2013 and Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from University of Mumbai in India. She was a Research Assistant in the Natural Language group at Information Sciences group (ISI), USC, as well as a Research Engineer at IIT Bombay, India.

Milind Tambe is a Professor in Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). The "security games” algorithms pioneered by his Teamcore group have been deployed for real-world use by several security agencies including the US Coast Guard, the US Federal Air Marshals service, LAX Police and the LA Sheriff’s Department. Recipient of the “influential paper award” from the International Foundation for Agents and Multiagent Systems.