Stephen L Campbell is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University, a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and has published extensively on numerical methods and control. He received a PhD in Mathematics from Northwestern University.
Ramine Nikoukhah is Vice President for System Modeling and Simulation at Altair Engineering. He also teaches at the engineering school ESILV where he uses Activate in systems, control and mechatronics courses. Previously he had been director of research at INRIA, where he was a member of the team that developed Scilab and Scicos. He has received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.