Dr. Andreas Bender is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Statistics, Head of the Machine Learning Consulting Unit (MLCU) at the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), and founder of the Open Science Initiative in Statistics at LMU Munich. Machine Learning Survival Analysis is one of Andreas' main research areas. Andreas created several open-source packages and actively contributes to survival analysis software, including pammtools and mlr3proba.

Dr. Raphael Sonabend-Friend is an Associate Director at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the CEO and Co-Founder of OSPO Now. Raphael holds a PhD focused on the accessible and transparent use of machine learning for survival analysis. Raphael has over a decade of experience at the intersection of AI and healthcare, including work with large philanthropies, small local charities, governmental bodies, and private sector organizations in the United Kingdom and globally. Raphael has created and maintained several software packages for survival analysis and machine learning, including mlr3proba, survivalmodels, and SurvivalAnalysis.jl. Raphael co-edited and co-authored Applied Machine Learning Using mlr3 in R.