Ritayan Roy is a quantum physicist, with scholarly track record and experience for over 10 years. He completed his PhD from the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, followed by research fellowships in the University of Southampton and University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

Gurpreet K Gulati earned her PhD from the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, in Quantum Optics. She is a leading researcher in the field of entangled photon-pair generation with 10 years of research experience. She was research fellow at University of Sussex, UK and JPL-NASA, USA.

Iftekher Chowdhury is a PhD candidate in Quantum Optics at Macquarie University. He is currently working on a long distance quantum communication project. He is also an IT engineer by profession with 3 years of experience in network engineering.

Eric Howard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theoretical Physics at CSIRO, Astronomy and Space Science and Macquarie University Centre for Quantum Engineering. He is also Adjunct Research Fellow in computational condensed matter at Griffith University. He earned his PhD in black hole physics at Macquarie University and currently works on quantum information theory, many-body physics, quantum phase transitions and criticality, theoretical condensed matter, AdS/CFT, quantum thermalization, non-equilibrium and quantum chaos and their applications to cosmology and quantum gravity. Eric brings in 25 years of experience as a network and systems engineer as well.

Gavin Brennen is Professor of Physics at Macquarie University. He has 17 years experience in quantum related technologies including architectures for quantum computing using atomic, molecular, and optical systems. He leads a quantum information theory group working on quantum computing and simulations of many body physics, and is director of the Macquarie Centre for Quantum Engineering.

Thomas Volz is Associate Professor in Experimental Quantum Physics at Macquarie University. He has worked with different quantum systems, from ultracold quantum gases to integrated quantum photonic devices to nanodiamonds. The main focus of his current research lies on the exploration of novel material systems for emerging quantum technologies. A/Prof Volz is a CI in EQUS, the ARC Centre of Excellence on Engineered Quantum Systems. He is EQUS node manager at Macquarie University and part of the EQUS Executive and TRL Committees.