Jasper Zhang is the Co-founder and CEO of Hyperbolic. Notably, he completed his Math Ph.D. at Berkeley in just two years, which makes him the fastest person to finish a Ph.D. program in the history of Berkeley. He has won many gold medals in Alibaba global mathematics competitions twice, Chinese Mathematical Olympiad, Russian Mathematical Olympiad, and Chinese Mathematics Competition for College Students. With experience at Citadel Securities and Ava Labs, Jasper has developed expertise in cryptography, mechanism design, economics, and AI/ML. His story has been featured in top newspapers and social media in China, with more than 100M views.

Raluca Ada Popa is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley. Raluca co-founded and co-directs the RISELab and SkyLab, labs aiming to build secure intelligent systems for the cloud and for the sky of clouds, respectively, and the DARE program for promoting diversity and equity. As faculty, she was awarded the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award 2021, a Sloan Research Fellowship, J. Lepreau Best Paper Award, Distinguished Paper Award, J. and D. Gray Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching of Computer Science, Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, NSF CAREER, Bakar Faculty Fellowship, and was selected to the list of 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review. She has been a co-founder and the President of Opaque Systems and co-founder (and served as CTO) of PreVeil.