Ram Mohan Vasu completed a PhD in physics from Aston University in Birmingham. Following this he was a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore between 2007–2016. His research interests focus predominantly on imaging and signal processing with special emphasis on optics and tomography. Debasish Roy obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore and followed this with postdoctoral research at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His areas of research include computational mechanics of non-classical continua, stochastic dynamical systems and optimization, and inverse problems. He has published numerous works on these topics, and he is currently a Professor at the computational mechanics laboratory at the IISc.