Ashutosh Simha was born in 1989. He received his PhD degree from Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. His scientific work belongs to the field of nonlinear control theory.

Tanel Mullari was born in 1964. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in theoretical physics from Taru University and had the postdoc-study in University of Linz, Austria. He worked as a researcher in the Institute of Cybernetics from 2000 to 2015. At present he holds the positions of Associate Professor at Tallinn University of Technology. His main research interests lie in domains of special relativity and of nonlinear control theory.

Ülo Nurges was born in 1939. He received his MSc degree in control engineering from Tallinn University of Technology and PhD degree in computer and systems from Estonian Academy of Sciences. His main research interests lie in the domain of linear control systems and especially in robust control theory.

Jüri Vain received his BSc degree in system engineering from the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute and PhD degree from the Institute of Cybernetics at the Estonian Academy of Sciences, in 1979 and 1987, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Tallinn University of Technology and he also holds a position of Senior Researcher in the Institute of Cybernetics. His research interests include embedded systems, modeling of discrete-event and hybrid dynamic systems, formal verification in system design, and fault-tolerance.