Ian Goodfellow is a Research Scientist at Google in Mountain View, California. Before joining Google, he obtained his Ph.D. at Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville. During his studies he was the recipient of a Google Fellowship. He has studied a wide variety of topics involving deep learning for computer vision, including address number transcription from Street View images, object recognition with convolutional networks, and developing defenses against "adversarial examples" that deceive machine learning models.

Navdeep Jaitly is a Research Scientist at Google. He received his PhD from University of Toronto under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton. His interests lie in Machine Learning, Speech Recognition and Computational Biology. At University of Toronto he did work on deep generative and discriminative models focussing mostly on speech data. During an internship at Google in 2011, he showed that Deep Neural Networks improved the accuracy of state of the art speech recognizers built on thousands of hours of data. This work led to the modern day neural network based speech recognizer in Android.