Dr. Jonathan Francis is a Research Scientist at Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence and an affiliated researcher in the Language Technologies Institute and Robotics Institute, in the School of Computer Science, at Carnegie Mellon University; he is a researcher and technical lead on the Learn-to-Race initiative. Jonathan maintains a research focus in domain knowledge-enhanced representation learning, applied to robotics and autonomous driving, where, in the context of Learn-to-Race, he focuses on safe reinforcement learning in the pursuit of safer and more generalisable autonomous systems. Jonathan received his PhD from the School of Computer Science at CMU in 2022.

Noted for his contributions to the fields of automatic text translation, information retrieval, and automatic question answering, Nyberg holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (1992) and a B.A. from Boston University (1983). He is a recipient of the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence (for his contributions to the field of question answering and his work as an original developer on the Watson project) and the BU Computer Science Distinguished Alumna/Alumnus Award. Eric currently directs the Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS) program. He is also co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist at Cognistx and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for Fairhair.ai.

Anirudh Koul is the Head of Machine Learning and Labeling Sciences at Pinterest. He serves as a mentor on the Learn-to-Race affiliated capstone projects, in the Master's in Computational Data Science (MCDS) program, from the Language Technologies Institute, in the School of Computer Science, at Carnegie Mellon University.

Siddha Ganju is a Researcher and Data Scientist at NVIDIA, focusing on computer vision optimization for vehicle autonomy and medical instruments. She serves as a mentor on the Learn-to-Race affiliated capstone projects, in the Master's in Computational Data Science (MCDS) program, from the Language Technologies Institute, in the School of Computer Science, at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a 2016 MCDS alumna.