Karin Strauss is a senior principal research manager at Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research) and an affiliate full professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (http://www.cs.washington.edu/) at University of Washington (http://www.washington.edu/). Her research lies at the intersection of computer architecture, systems, and biology. Her work includes hardware accelerators for machine learning, emerging memory technologies, and the use of biotechnology to the benefit of the IT industry. Lately, her focus has been on creating an end-to-end system that stores digital data in synthetic DNA, for which she was named one of the 2016 “100 Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company. Along with Luis Ceze, she has recently received the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award for their work on DNA data storage. The DNA data storage project has also been chosen as “Best of What’s New” by Popular Science in 2016, one of the "Top 10 Emerging Technologies" by the World Economic Forum in 2019, and highlighted by influential publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, and Scientific American. Karin received her PhD in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007.

Rujia Wang joined Illinois Institute of Technology in Fall 2018. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S degree from Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Pittsburgh and her B.E. from Zhejiang University. Her research experience spans across multiple areas in computer engineering, including novel memory architecture, secure computing architecture, system reliability, and high-performance computing, and her work has been published in top conferences in computer architecture area.

Natalie Enright Jerger is the Canada Research Chair in Computer Architecture and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is currently serving as the Director of the Division of Engineering Scinece at the University of Toronto. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, she received her MSEE and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004 and 2008, respectively. She received her Bachelor's degree from Purdue University in 2002. She is a recipient of the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award in 2012, the 2014 Ontario Professional Engineers Young Engineer Medal recipient and the 2015 Borg Early Career Award winner. She served as the program co-chair of the 7th Network-on-Chip Symposium, as the program chair of the 20th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture and as program co-chair for the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems in 2023. She is currently serving as the ACM SIGARCH Chair. Her current research explores on-chip networks, approximate computing, IoT architectures and machine learning acceleration. She is also passionate about increasing the representation of women in computing, particular in computer architecture. She is the former chair of the organizing committee for the Women in Computer Architecture group (WICARCH). In 2017, she co-authored the second edition of the Computer Architecture Synthesis Lecture on On-Chip Networks with Li-Shiuan Peh and Tushar Krishna. Her research has been supported by NSERC, Intel, CFI, AMD and Qualcomm.