Salvador Barrera is a faculty member at the Entertainment Technology Center of Carnegie Mellon University. Originally from Mexico City, he graduated from Tokyo Institute of Technology where he obtained both a Masters and Doctoral degree of Computer Science and Engineering in the field of Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality. Before he joined Carnegie Mellon, he dedicated his research to develop a new input device for virtual environments.

Jiyoung Lee is currently a faculty member at the Entertainment Technology Center of Carnegie Mellon University at the Silicon Valley campus. She was previously a music instructor in Adelaide campus at ETC. Originally from Seoul Korea, she is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Master of Music (MM) in Music Composition and Master of Entertainment Technology (MET) from the Entertainment Technology Center (2006). She received her Bachelor of Music (BM) in Music Composition from the Music Education Department at Konkuk University in Seoul Korea (2000).