W. John Braun is Deputy Director of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute. He is also Professor and Head of the Departments of Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics and Statistics at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. His research interests are in the modeling of environmental phenomena, such as wildfire, as well as statistical education, particularly as it relates to the R programming language.

Duncan J. Murdoch is a member of the R core team of developers and is co-president of the R Foundation. He is one of the developers of the rgl package for 3D visualization in R and has also developed numerous other R packages. Murdoch is also a professor in the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Western Ontario.