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Ravi Sheth was a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge where he got my PhD in 1994. He then spent time at UCBerkeley (1994-1996), the Max-Planck Institut fuer Astrophysik in Garching (1996-1999), and Fermilab (1999-2001) before becoming an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh (2002-2004).  Professor Sheth moved to Penn in 2005, where he became an Associate Professor in 2007 and a full Professor in 2009.

Drew Jamieson received his undergraduate degrees and master's degree at the University of Guelph. Currently, he is finishing his PhD at Stony Brook University, and he will be starting his first postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics this Fall. His work has focused on large-scale structure theory, cosmic biases, and N-body simulations. Most recently, he has been working as a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics on applications of machine learning for large-scale structure.

Marcus Bruggen is a Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics at the Hamburg Observatory, Department of Physics, University of Hamburg in Germany.  He received his PhD from the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in the UK.  His research interests include high-energy astrophysics, particle acceleration and plasma physics, clusters of galaxies, active galactic nuclei, radio astronomy and machine learning.

Zachary Slepian is originally from Fairfield, Connecticut.  He received a BA summa cum laude from Princeton (2011), working with J. Richard Gott, III on his senior thesis, an MSt in philosophy of physics at Oxford (2012), and a PhD in Astrophysics (2016) from Harvard, advised by Daniel J. Eisenstein.

Yi-Kuan Chiang is a CCAPP fellow at the Ohio State University working on data-intensive astronomy. He extracts cosmological and astrophysical information in the diffuse extragalactic background light in sky surveys across the electromagnetic spectrum. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and has held post-doctoral positions at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Tokyo.

David Alonso studied Physics and received a PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Oxford, and as Tutor of Astrophysics at Christ Church, before moving to Cardiff University with an STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship. He then returned to Oxford as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow at St Peter's in 2019.