Jeff Walling received the PhD degree from the University of Washington in 2008, where his research focused on integration of radios into CMOS technologies. He is currently an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, he and his students have published over 100 papers and he holds 11 issued US Patents. He co-founded Merle Innovations with Sangmin Yoo in 2018. He is also the founder of Fricxel, a company focused on rapid synthesis of inverse designs.

Sangin Yoo received the PhD degree from the University of Washington in 2010, where his research focused on integration of radios into CMOS technologies. He has industrial experience at Samsung and Qualcomm.  He was an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University until 2020. He co-founded Merle Innovations in 2018 and was with Merle through Dec. 2020. Most recently, he is a VP at Samsung.