Social computing researcher at Microsoft Research interested in collective action, civic media, and peer production. His research has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, and Wired. Andrés was named one of the 35 Innovators under 35 by the MIT Technology Review in Spanish, one of Boston's Business Journal 2013 Emerging Leaders, and one CNET's "most influential Latinos" in the US. He holds a PhD from the MIT Media Lab, and a BS from the Tec de Monterrey in Mexico.

Samuel Woolley conducts research on politics, digital culture and automation at the University of Washington’s Department of Communication. Currently, he is investigating the global usage of political bots–software programs used to mimic human social media users in attempts to manipulate public opinion. He works as the project manager of CompProp at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Political Bots Project at UW. He is a graduate fellow at the Tech Policy Lab and the Center for Media, Data, and Society and a researcher on the Digital Activism Research Project, the New Pathways to Data Science Project, and at the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. Sam is based in Seattle and tweets from @samuelwoolley.