Professor Haibo Zhai, the Roy & Caryl Cline Chair of Engineering, Environment and Natural Resources at UW, is the IECM's principal investigator. Prior to coming to UW, he was an associate research professor at Carnegie Mellon University and served as the IECM's project manager for ten years.
Karen Kietzke is the IECM's principal research programmer. She came to UW after 29 years of working on the IECM at Carnegie Mellon University.
Professor Ed Rubin was the IECM's founder and principal investigator from 1983 to 2022. He is currently an emeritus professor at Carnegie Mellon University and an advisor to the IECM project.