John Mark Agosta is a Data Scientist who has worked with numerous startups and labs in the Bay Area, including the original Knowledge Industries. He has been a researcher at Intel Labs, where he was awarded a Santa Fe Institute Business Fellowship in 2007, and at SRI International after receiving his Ph.D. at Stanford. He founded the UAI Applications Workshop in 2002, and has attended the annual Uncertainty in AI conference since its inception in 1985.

Rommel Novaes Carvalho is a researcher with the Brazilian Office of the Comptroller General and an affiliate professor at the University of Brasília. His research focus is on uncertainty in the Semantic Web using Bayesian Inference, Data Science, Software Engineering, as well as Java, R, and Python programming. He is the developer of PR-OWL (v2.0) and UnBBayes, an open source, java-based graphical editor for Multi-Entity Bayesian Network and Probabilistic Web Ontology Language (PR-OWL), among other probabilistic graphical models.