Simon Haykin is University Professor and Director of the Adaptive Systems Laboratory at McMaster University.

José C. Príncipe is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville, where he is BellSouth Professor and Founder and Director of the Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory.

Terrence J. Sejnowski holds the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He was a member of the advisory committee for the Obama administration's BRAIN initiative and is President of the Neural Information Processing (NIPS) Foundation. He is the author of The Deep Learning Revolution (MIT Press) and other books.

John McWhirter is Senior Fellow at QinetiQ Ltd., Malvern, Associate Professor at the Cardiff School of Engineering, and Honorary Visiting Professor at Queen's University, Belfast.