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Renaud Lambiotte has a PhD in physics from the Université libre de Bruxelles. After postdocs at ENS Lyon, Université de Liège, UCLouvain and Imperial College London, and a professorship in Mathematics at the University of Namur, he is currently professor at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, and a Turing Fellow at the Turing Institute.

Yuanzhao is a Schmidt Science Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He grew up in Zhejiang, China, and received his Ph.D. in Physics from Northwestern University in 2020. His research interest lies in the interface of networks and nonlinear dynamics. Some topics he worked on recently include the effect of disorder in network dynamics, mechanisms for chimera states, synchronization on hypergraphs and temporal networks, and basins of attraction in high-dimensional systems.

Jan Nagler studied physics in Kiel, Germany, before he went for his PhD (on dynamical systems, in particular problems in chaotic astrophysics) to Bremen, Germany. His scientific positions include Boston University, USA (research on networks and econophysics), the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen, Germany, and ETH Zurich & ETH Risk Center, Switzerland. In 2018, Jan Nagler joined Frankfurt School and the Centre for Human and Machine Intelligence as the Head of the Deep Dynamics Group, which aims for a deep understanding of real-world system dynamics in finance, economics, ecology, physics and socio-technological systems, in particular networks and networked socio-economic systems.

Federico uses his background in statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics and complexity science to describe social networks, model the human brain, and capture collective behaviors and dynamical phenomena emerging in such systems. Federico holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Queen Mary University of London, and degrees in Statistical Physics from Sapienza University of Rome. Before becoming Assistant Professor at the Department of Network and Data Science at Central European University, Federico worked at CNRS Paris Brain Institute in France, University College London and the University of Zurich.

Dr. Jie Sun is a technical expert and chief researcher in network science at Huawei Hong Kong Research Center, leading a team of researchers in the broad area of control and optimization in complex systems focusing on its fundamental research as well as tackling critical industrial applications. Before joining Huawei in 2019, Jie was an Associate Professor in Mathematics at Clarkson University and the Clarkson Center for Complex Systems Science. He received his BS in Physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006, PhD in Applied Mathematics from Clarkson University in 2009, and was a postdoc at Northwestern University and Princeton University until joining Clarkson University as a faculty member in July 2012. Dr. Sun’s research spans a broad range of topics centered around complex systems, nonlinear dynamics and control aspects of network science, with a recent focus on causal inference, machine learning and optimization with dynamical systems. He has published over 50 papers in those topics in journals including SIAM series, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, and Nature Communications; his work with colleagues and PhD advisees on indoor localization using ordinal data has been awarded a US patent. Dr. Sun is a member of SIAM and APS, an Editor of Chaos and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

Yulia R. Gel is Professor in the Department of Mathematical Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Her research interests include statistical foundation of data science, inference for random graphs and complex networks, time series analysis and predictive analytics. She holds a Ph.D in Mathematics from Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, followed by a postdoctoral position in Statistics at the University of Washington, USA. Prior to joining UT Dallas, she was a tenured faculty member at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She held visiting positions at Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Berkeley, and the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK. She served as a Vice President of the International Society on Business and Industrial Statistics, and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Cristopher Moore received his B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, and Integrated Science from Northwestern University, and his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell. Since 2012, Moore has been a resident professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He has also held visiting positions at the Niels Bohr Institute, École Normale Superieure, École Polytechnique, Université Paris 7, Northeastern University, the University of Michigan, and Microsoft Research. Moore has written over 160 papers at the boundary between mathematics, physics, and computer science, ranging from quantum computing, to phase transitions in Bayesian inference and NP-complete problems, to the theory of social networks. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Mathematical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. With Stephan Mertens, he is the author of The Nature of Computation from Oxford University Press.

Yanqing Hu received his PhD degree from Beijing Normal University in 2011. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Levich Institute of City University of New York, from 2011 to 2013. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at Department of Statistics and Data Science of Southern University of Science and Technology. His research interests mainly focus on using big data to explore the mechanisms inside complex systems, such as the spreading of human behavior, the resilience of brain and infrastructure networks, the network structure predictability and formation process, etc.

Pan Li has joined the Purdue CS department as an assistant professor since 2020 Fall. Before joining Purdue, Pan worked as a one-year postdoc at the CS department of Stanford. Pan did his Ph.D. in the ECE department at the University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign from 2015 to 2019. Pan Li has got several awards including JPMorgan Faculty Award, Sony Faculty Innovation Award and Ross-Lynn Faculty Award.