Ali Erol received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. His research interests include image processing, computer vision, neural networks and pattern recognition. He is now a member of Computer Vision Laboratory (CVL) and working in a project on Human Computer Interaction in Virtual Environments with Dr. George Bebis.

While pursuing the Doctor of Philosophy, Bobby worked as a Graduate Research Assistant, Teaching Assistant, and Assistant Instructor at the Department of Computer Sciences at UT-Austin, and consulted on the NERO and Digital Warrior projects at the Digital Media Collaboratory at the IC2 Institute at UT-Austin. He has presented papers at the Congress on Evolutionary Computing (2003, 2006), and at the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (2006), where he won the Best Student Paper award. He has participated as a co-author for additional conference and journal papers about the NERO project, including the paper that won the Best Paper award at the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games. He has also appeared as an invited speaker at the Digital Media Collaboratory's GameDev conference, and at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Eelke Folmer is an (new) assistant Professor at the University of Nevada in Reno. Previously he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Software Engineering / Games Group at the University of Alberta. He received a PhD degree from the University of Groningen where he worked on the European Union funded Software Architecture for Usability (STATUS) project. His research interests revolve around the relationship between software architecture and software quality, motivated by the fact that the quality of a system is very much restricted and determined by architecture design. His interests are primarily geared towards the games domain where he currently works on:
- game architectures & component based game development.
- game quality: usability & accessibility

Haisong Gu received his Ph.D. degree in Computer vision from Osaka University, Japan. Then he joined in the sensing lab in Matsushita Electric Works, Japan. His research interests include computer vision, human-computer interaction, image processing and intelligent robot systems. Dr. Gu works in Computer Vision Lab (CVL). Currently, he is working on Effective HCI in Virtual Environment project sponsored by NASA and Vehicle Detection project sponsored by Ford.

Wenjing Li received her Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2002. Her research interests are computer vision, pattern recognition and neural computing. Currently, she is working on the ONR project, Automatic Target Recognition Using Algebraic Functions of Views, with Prof. George Bebis.

Xiangyang Li received a B.S. degree in Automatic Control from Northeastern University, Shenyang, in 1993, and a M.S. degree with research in Systems Simulation from the Chinese Academy of Aerospace Administration, Beijing, in 1996. He was a researcher of the Beijing Institute of Computer Application and Simulation Technology from 1996 to 1999. And then he got his Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from the department of Industrial Engineering of Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, in fall 2001. In his dissertation titled "Clustering and Classification Algorithm for Computer Intrusion Detection," a new scalable supervised clustering algorithm is proposed for classification task in computer intrusion detection. This algorithm is a general data mining algorithm, which has been used to ergonomics, medical, and census data. Dr. Li currently works as a postdoc with Dr. Qiang Ji. Their research is about applying Bayesian models in integrating multimodality data in order to provide active assistance for users in human computer interaction. Dr. Li's past research interests are knowledge discovery, data mining, and machine learning, theory, quality and reliability of information systems, human computer interaction, and system modeling and simulation.

Murat Yuksel has been a Postdoctoral Research Associate and a member of Adjunct Faculty at the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE) Department of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY since 2002. He received a B.S. degree from Computer Engineering Department of Ege University, Izmir, Turkey in 1996. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Computer Science Department of RPI in 1999 and 2002 respectively. His research interests are in the area of computer communication networks with a special focus on experimental networking, such as wireless ad-hoc networks, large-scale network simulation and experiment design, mobile ad-hoc free-space-optical (FSO) networks, network pricing, and performance analysis. He is a member of IEEE and Sigma Xi.