Sanjeev Arora is a professor in the department of computer science at Princeton University. He has done foundational work on probabilistically checkable proofs andapproximability of NP-hardproblems. He is the founding director of the Center for Computational Intractability, which is funded by the National Science Foundation.

Boaz Barak is an assistant professor in the department of computer science at Princeton University. He has done foundational work in computational complexity andcryptography, especially in developing “non-blackbox” techniques.