Director of the Sculpting Evolution Group at the MIT Media Lab; co-founder of the SecureDNA Foundation; inventor of CRISPR-based gene drive

Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University; winner of the Turing Award and Kyoto Prize

Attorney-at-Law and Partner at Egger Dommer Bär; specializing in corporate law and corporate transactions (M&A)

Swedish health tech entrepreneur with interest in biosafety; managing the SecureDNA project and the Swiss Foundation

Software architect and security lead for SecureDNA, with research background in cryptography, distributed systems, and privacy-protecting technologies

Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University; co-inventor of the Merkle-Damgård construction, used in important cryptographic functions including SHA-2 and MD5

Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering, with special interests in pseudorandomness and leakage-resilient cryptography

Assistant professor of computer science at Tsingua University's Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences; leads the Innovative Data-centric Efficient Architecture Lab (IDEAL)

Associate Professor in Cybersecurity Section at DTU Compute

Professor at Weizmann Institute; co-inventor of widely used RSA algorithm and Feige-Fiat-Shamir identification scheme; one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis

Distinguished Professor and Dean of Schwarzman College in Tsinghua University, with research interests in public policy analysis, science and technology policy, and global governance

One of just twelve Institute Professors across MIT; co-inventor of the widely used RSA public-key cryptosystem; inventor of symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2, RC4, and RC5

Professor of computer science at MIT; chief cryptographer at Duality Technologies; Gödel Prize winner (2022); co-inventor of modern fully homomorphic encryption systems and several lattice-based primitives

Professor of Political Science, Professor of Data Systems and Society; Director of the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies, with research interests in international relations, political economy, and tech policy

Associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University, with research interests in all aspects of modern cryptography, including theoretical foundations and applications to information security

Head of R&D at Alvea, which aims to develop and rigorously test a scalable and shelf-stable COVID-19 vaccine; former postdoctoral researcher under Prof. Kevin Esvelt at the Sculpting Evolution Group at the MIT Media Lab

Post-doctoral fellow in MIT Media Lab's Sculpting Evolution group, currently researching the use of directed evolution of biosynthetic pathways to synthesize novel peptide therapeutics for several diseases

Principal Investigator at the Biodesign Library at the Francis Crick Institute; physicist and synthetic biologist with PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT

PhD candidate at Tsinghua University's Institute of Network Science and Cyberspace, with research interests including network and protocol security

PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab specializing in DNA security and liquid handling robotics, graduate research assistant at Sculpting Evolution Group