Gedare Bloom works at the Department of Computer Science at University of Colorado, Colorado Springs as an Assistant Professor. Since 2011 Professor Bloom has been a maintainer for the RTEMS open-source hard real-time OS, which is used in robotics frameworks, unmanned vehicles, satellites and space probes, automotive, defense, building automation, medical devices, industrial controllers, and more.

Joel Sherrill joined On-Line Applications Research Corporation in 1989 and is currently the Director of Research and Development. He is one of the original developers of the free real-time operating system RTEMS and current project lead.

Tingting Hu works as a research scientist in the University of Luxembourg with the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine. She also works as industrial consultant for leading national industries in the provision of software design solutions for real-time embedded systems, in the domain of industrial ovens, building automation and motion control.

Ivan Cibrario Bertolotti is associated with the Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni (IEIIT), Turin, Italy.