Aaron K. Baughman is a member of the Special Events Group at IBM (USA) for World Wide Sports. Previously, he was Technical Lead on a DeepQA Embed Research project that included an instance of the Jeopardy! Challenge.
Jiang (John) Gao is a Principal Scientist in the Advanced Development and Technology Group at Nokia USA, working on multimedia and mobile applications, data mining and computer vision.
Jia-Yu Pan is a software engineer at Google (USA), working on data mining and anomaly detection in big data.
Valery A. Petrushin is a Principal Scientist in the Research and Development Group at Opera Solutions (USA). His previous publications include the successful Springer title Multimedia Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.