Yonina C. Eldar is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, a Research Affiliate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, California. She has received numerous awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, the Hershel Rich Innovation Award, the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences, the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation, and the Muriel and David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching. She is an Associate Editor for several journals in the areas of signal processing and mathematics and a Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer.
Gitta Kutyniok is an Einstein Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. She has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University, New Jersey, Stanford University, California, and Yale University, Connecticut, and a Full Professor at the Universität Osnabrück, Germany. Her research and teaching has been recognized by various awards, including a Heisenberg Fellowship and the von Kaven Prize by the German Research Foundation, an Einstein Chair by the Einstein Foundation in Berlin, awards by the Universität Paderborn and the Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen for Excellence Research, as well as the Weierstraß Prize for Outstanding Teaching. She is an Associate Editor and also Corresponding Editor for several journals in the areas of applied mathematics.