Joseph Rosen received the D.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 1992. He is currently Benjamin H. Swig Chair of Optoelectronics and Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. Research interests include digital holography, imaging systems, diffractive optics, and optical microscopy. He is a Fellow of OPTICA and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). In 1992 he received The National Research Council Post-Doctoral Award and worked f as a Research Associate at Rome Laboratory, Optical Signal Processing Branch, in Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. Between 12/1993 and 9/1996, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Applied Physics Department of the California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California. Between 9/2005 and 8/2007, he worked as a Visiting Associate Professor at The Integrated Imaging Center of Johns Hopkins University, Rockville, Maryland. In 2018, he was a senior fellow at Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, Greifswald, Germany. Other institutes where he stayed with a fellowship for less than a year are The University of Electro-Communications, Chōfu, Japan (1998,1999, 2015), University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut (2000), Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Stellenbosch, South Africa (2022), and The University of Tartu, Estonia (2022/3).

Vijayakumar Anand received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the American College, Madurai, an M.Tech. in Laser Technology from the College of Engineering, Anna University, India, and a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, in 2015. He was awarded the Monbukagakusho Fellowship, in 2010, and the JSPS Fellowship, in 2020, by the Japanese Government. He held a Postdoctoral Position with Ben Gurion University, Israel, between 2015 and 2018, as a recipient of the Planning and Budgeting Committee outstanding postdoctoral fellowship of the Israel Government, in 2015. He was a Deputy Vice Chancellor Research and Enterprise fellow at the Optical Sciences Center, Swinburne University of Technology between 2019 and 2021. Since 2022, he has been ERA Chair and Associate Professor of Computational Imaging at the Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, Estonia. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor with the Optical Sciences Center, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is an Editorial board member of Nature Springer Applied Physics B, and Chinese Optics Letters and Applied Optics journals of Optica. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. His current research interests include computational optics, imaging, digital holography, diffractive optics, and microfabrication.