J. Paul has worked professionally at Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation//SPARC as Designer/Researcher in Service Design, and at Unilever in Consumer & Market Insights on leading CPG brands. J. Paul holds an MA in Design Interactions with Distinction from the Royal College of Art, and is a graduate of Northwestern University where he studied Communication Studies, Economics, and Cello Performance.

Dan has worked in data visualization and decision support & impact assessment at Envision Mapping Ltd. and as a Developer at Gavurin Ltd., developing online economic applications, and tools for graphical representation of economic data. He holds an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art, a BA with Honors in Graphic Design from Northumbria University, and has received a D&AD yellow pencil for his design work.

Katia holds a PhD and an MPhil from the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and an undergraduate degree in computational linguistics from St-Petersburg State University. Her work has been published at top NLP conferences and was marked by a number of prizes and awards, including a Google Anita Borg EMEA Scholarship 2010, NSF and ACL Walker Award 2009, Overseas Research Students Award 2007-2010 and many others.