Bernhard Schölkopf is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany. He is coauthor of Learning with Kernels (2002) and is a coeditor of Advances in Kernel Methods: Support Vector Learning (1998), Advances in Large-Margin Classifiers (2000), and Kernel Methods in Computational Biology (2004), all published by the MIT Press.

Koji Tsuda is a Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute and a Researcher at AIST Computational Biology Research Center, Tokyo.

Jean-Philippe Vert is Researcher and Leader of the Bioinformatics Group at École des Mines de Paris.