Mouri Zakir received her Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University in Utah, United States, and recently completed her Master's thesis based on her research conducted at the Biometric Technologies Laboratory at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Her research focuses on the causal modeling of data regarding vulnerable groups from a social sustainability and inclusion perspective.

Dr. Gregor Wolbring is a tenured Professor at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine (Community Health Science, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies).  He is presently a member of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe, Germany, and a fellow of the Institute for Science, Policy and Society, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Svetlana Yanushkevich is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary. She established and is the Director the Biometric Technologies Laboratory at the Schulich School of Engineering (SSE) of the University of Calgary. She holds a doctoral degree (Dr. Habilitated) in technical sciences from the Technical University of Warsaw. She joined the University of Calgary in 2001. Her research is focused on the development of digital technologies, machine reasoning and machine learning techniques for various biometric-enabled applications, such as biometric access systems, identity management, behavioral biometrics, health monitoring and diagnostics.