Orsolya Vásárhelyi holds a Ph.D. in Network & Data Science from the Central European University in Vienna, Austria. She is a Computational Social Scientist with a background in Statistics and Sociology. She is an ambassador and advisory board member of the Global Women in Data Science Initiative at Stanford University , and a member of the Data Science for Social Good Alumni . Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Warwick, CIM . Currently, she is a research fellow at the NETI Lab at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary, and an external researcher at the LINK Lab at Northwestern University, IL, USA. Her research focuses on how network and data science can lead to a better understanding of unconscious bias in STEM. Her research focuses on how network and data science can lead to a better understanding of unconscious bias in STEM.

Rebeka O Szabó holds a Ph.D. in Network & Data Science from the Central European University in Vienna, Austria, and an MSc from the Universiteit van Amsterdam in Sociology (Comparative Organizations and Labor Studies). She was a visiting research fellow at Kellogg School of Management and The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems of Northwestern University in 2020. Her graduate research has focused on group dynamics in the noninterventional, experimental research setting of escape rooms to better understand the behavior of problem-solving teams in their complexity. Rebeka's main scientific interests are social networks, teams, organizations, and evolution intertwined with themes of cooperation, social inequality, and knowledge diffusion.