Fan Du is a Ph.D. student in the computer science department of University of Maryland. He received his bachelor's degree at Zhejiang University with honors. He has worked as a software engineer intern in top companies including Alibaba, Tencent, and IBM Watson. He was the founder and CTO of WaiMai Online, a startup company that provides an online ordering system for more than 40 restaurants.

Jay LeBoeuf is a technology executive and entrepreneur in the media creation and production industry. Jay is the President/Executive Director of Real Industry—a nonprofit organization transforming how students learn about the real world and how products go from an idea through to the process of commercialization.

Jay led R&D, IP, and technology strategy as Strategic Technology Director at iZotope. He founded and was CEO of an intelligent audio technology company Imagine Research, which was acquired by iZotope in March 2012. While creating Google for Sound, Jay was recognized as a Bloomberg Businessweek Innovator, and was awarded $1.1M in Small Business Innovation Research grants by the U.S. National Science Foundation, and interviewed on BBC World, Science 360, and other major media outlets. Prior to founding Imagine Research, Jay was a researcher in the Advanced Technology Group at Digidesign (Avid Technology) in charge of innovations for the industry-standard Pro Tools platform. He lectures on Real Industry and music information retrieval at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), and is on the Board of Advisors for music startups Chromatik and Humtap.