Dr. Victor Pankratius is chair of the Software Engineering for Parallel Systems Working Group and heads the young investigator "Software Engineering for Multicore Systems group at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He was recently awarded the Intel Leadership in Academia Award.

Dr. Walter F. Tichy is professor of Computer Science at the University Karlsruhe, Germany and director of the software engineering department, and SUN authorized Java Center, at Forschungszentrum Informatik. He is on the steering committee of the Software Engineering for Parallel Systems Working group and was a co-recipient of the Intel Leadership in Academia Award, Spring 2009

Professor Tom Murphy is Computer Science Program Chair and Director of Contra Costa College HPC Regional Education Training Center. He helps lead weeklong Parallel and Distributed Programming workshops across the US through the SC and National Computational Science Institute. He is member of the SC07-11 Education Program steering committee. He is also co-host of the Teach Parallel! discussion series.