Ouri Wolfson is the President and Chief Scientist of Pirouette Software, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), a past ACM distinguished lecturer, and a University of Illinois Scholar. Wolfson authored over 230 publications, eight of them award winning, and he holds seven patents. His research has been funded by the NSF, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DARPA, NATO, US Army, NASA, New York State Science and Technology Foundation, Informix Co., Accenture Co., Hitachi Co. and Hughes Research Laboratories. Wolfson is the sole founder of Mobitrac, a venture-funded high-tech startup that was acquired in 2006. He is also the founder of Pirouette Software.

Professor Bruckstein is a member of the AMS, and the MAA, and is a IEEE Fellow for contributions to Signal Representation and Swarm Robotics, a SIAM Fellow for contributions to Signal Processing, Image Analysis, and Ant Robotics, and received SIAM’s 2014 SIAG-Imaging Science Prize (with David Donoho and Michael Elad, for the paper “From Sparse Solutions of Systems of Equations to Sparse Modeling of Signals and Images”), as well as IEEE’s Signal Processing Society’s 2018 Sustained Impact Paper Award for the K-SVD Dictionary Design (jointly with Michal Aharon and Michael Elad). He received an Honorary Doctorate from Agora University in Oradea, Romania, and was elected a Fellow of CORE Academy of Science and Humanities, of the Industry Academy of the AIIA, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific AI Association. He was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Data Science Society, in 2021.