Ronghui Xu, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of California, San Diego

Rui Wang is Associate Professor of Energy, Resources and Environment at the the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.

Dinshaw J. Patel, head of the Dinshaw Patel Lab, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

W. Hugh Woodin​, Professor of Philosophy and of Mathematics, Harvard University

Jeffrey A. Golden, Ramzi S. Cotran Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Chair of Department of Pathology, Brigham and Woman's Hospital

Mary Williams, Department Member, The Plant Cell, American Society of Plant Biologists

Harm Kuper, Professor at Further Education and Educational Management, Free University of Berlin

Roman Makhnenko, Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Nianhua Gu, Business ambassador of Hamilton municipal government, Ontario, Canada

Harm Kuper, Professor at Further Education and Educational Management, Free University of Berlin

Zhaozheng Yin, Associate Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Thomas Axworthy, Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto

JoAnne Stubbe, the Novartis Professor of Chemistry & Biology at MIT and Member of the US National Academy of Sciences

Hans Koster​, Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Daniel Raichvarg, Professor at University of Burgundy

Matthew P. Anderson, Associate Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology), Harvard Medical School

Silvio Micali, Ford Professor of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

Larry Young, director of the Center for Translational Social Neuroscience and of the Silvio O. Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition at Emory University in Atlanta

Albert Icksang Ko, Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases) and of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Yale School of Public Health

Sir James Fraser Stoddart, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry