Eric D. Kolaczyk is a professor of statistics and a data science faculty fellow at Boston University, in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, where he also is an affiliated faculty member in the Bioinformatics Program, the Division of Systems Engineering, and the Center for Systems Neuroscience. Currently, he serves as the director of Boston University's Hariri Institute for Computing. His publications on network-based topics, beyond the development of statistical methodology and theory, include work on applications ranging from the detection of anomalous traffic patterns in computer networks to the prediction of biological function in networks of interacting proteins to the characterization of influence of groups of actors in social networks. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Statistical Association (ASA), and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), and an elected senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Gábor Csárdi is a software engineer at RStudio, where he works on R infrastructure packages. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Eötvös University, Hungary, and he has done postdocs at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, the University of Lausanne, and Harvard University.