Chris Percy PhD is a consulting researcher with a background in artificial intelligence and career transitions. His data science research has featured in the Journal of AI Communications, Neural Information Processing Systems workshops, and the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, among others. His research on consciousness has been published in Synthese, the Journal of Consciousness Studies, Open Philosophy, Frontiers in Psychology, and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. He is a visiting research fellow at the University of Derby and a full voting member in the Association of Scientific Studies of Consciousness.

Andrés Gómez-Emilsson is the director of research at the Qualia Research Institute in California. He has a Master’s Degree in Psychology with an emphasis on computational models from Stanford and a professional background in graph theory, statistics, and affective science. Andrés was also the co-founder of the Stanford Transhumanist Association and first-place winner of the Norway Math Olympiad. His work at QRI ranges from algorithm design, to psychedelic theory, to neurotechnology development, to mapping and studying the computational properties of consciousness. Andrés blogs at qualiacomputing.com.