From left:

Brody Sandel started on July 1, 2010. He recently received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in macroecology, biodiversity and climate change.

Elad Verbin started on August 1, 2010 as a post-doctoral researcher.

Qin Zhang started on August 1, 2010 as a post-doctoral researcher. He recently received his PhD from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests are in algorithms for massive data; data structures; approximation/online algorithms.