Travis Dixon is a media effects scholar dedicated to investigating the prevalence of stereotypes in the mass media and the impact of stereotypical imagery on audience members. He has been honored as a faculty fellow with UIUC's Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society and he was the 2013 Visiting Philanthropy Faculty Scholar at the Clinton School of Public Service. Dr. Dixon has received 7 top paper awards from the National Communication Association and the International Communication Association. He has also received a top article award from the National Communication Association. Dr.

Jana Diesener's research is at the nexus of network analysis, natural language processing and machine learning. In her lab, they develop and advance computational solutions that help people to better understand the interplay and co-evolution of information and socio-technical networks. They bring their solutions into real-world context to solve here and now problems - currently mainly related to impact assessment.

Robert J. Brunner is a professor in the School of Information Sciences and in the Department of Accountancy in the Gies College of Business. He has affiliate appointments in the Astronomy, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Informatics, Physics, and Statistics Departments; at the Beckman Institute, in the Computational Science and Engineering program; and at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He is also the Data Science Expert in Residence at the Research Park at the University of Illinois.

Jake Bowers is a Professor in the Political Science, Statistics and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He is also a Fellow at the White House Social and Behavioral Science Team.