Yoshua Bengio is a world-leading expert in artificial intelligence, renowned for his pioneering work in deep learning, which earned him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. He is a Full Professor at Université de Montréal, Founder and Scientific Advisor of Mila - Quebec AI Institute. He received numerous awards, including the prestigious Killam Prize and Herzberg Gold medal in Canada, CIFAR's AI Chair, Spain's Princess of Asturias Award, the VinFuture Prize and he is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of London and Canada, Knight of the Legion of Honor of France, Officer of the Order of Canada, Member of the UN's Scientific Advisory Board for Independent Advice on Breakthroughs in Science and Technology. Yoshua Bengio was named in 2024 as one of TIME magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Concerned about the social impact of AI, he actively contributed to the Montreal Declaration for the Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence and currently chairs the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI. In June 2025, he launches a new non-profit AI safety research organization called LawZero, to prioritize safety over commercial imperatives.

Yarin leads the Oxford Applied and Theoretical Machine Learning (OATML) group. He is an Associate Professor of Machine Learning at the Computer Science department, University of Oxford. He is also the Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science at Christ Church, Oxford, a Turing AI Fellow at the Turing Institute, and Director of Research at the UK Government's AI Security Institute (AISI, formerly the Frontier AI Taskforce). Prior to his move to Oxford he was a Research Fellow in Computer Science at St Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his PhD from the Cambridge machine learning group, working with Prof Zoubin Ghahramani and funded by the Google Europe Doctoral Fellowship.

Florian Tramèr is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, where he leads the Secure and Private AI (SPY) Lab. He is a member of the Information Security Institute and ZISC, and an associated faculty member of the ETHZ AI Center. His research lies at the intersection of Computer Security, Machine Learning, and Cryptography. His work studies the worst-case behavior of deep learning systems from an adversarial perspective, aiming to understand and mitigate long-term threats to user safety and privacy. Under his leadership, the SPY Lab investigates the robustness and trustworthiness of machine learning systems, often using adversarial attacks to probe and improve their security.

Qin Yao is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, affiliated with the Department of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, where she is also co-leading the REAL AI initiative. Meanwhile, she is a senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, working on Gemini Multimodal. She obtained her PhD degree at UC San Diego in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Garrison W. Cottrell. During her PhD, she also interned under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton, Ian Goodfellow and many others.