Mary L. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. Mary, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how people’s everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. She sits on several boards, including Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research and the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, in addition to chairing the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program—the only federally registered institutional review board of its kind in the tech industry. In 2020, Mary was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to anthropology and the study of technology, digital economies, and society.

Siddharth Suri is a computational social scientist whose research interests lie at the intersection of computer science, behavioral economics, and crowdsourcing.  His early work analyzed the relationship between network topology and human behavior.  Since then he has become one of the leaders in designing, building, and conducting "virtual lab" experiments using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. He has used this methodology to study cooperation, honesty, group problem solving, and display advertising. More recently, he was a founding member of Microsoft Research - New York City and I just joined the Adaptive Systems and Interaction group of Microsoft Research - AI. Siddharth has a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.