Koichi Ohno obtained his D.Sc. from the University of Tokyo in 1973. For 1975-1977 he was a Ramsay memorial fellow in UK. At the University of Tokyo, he was a Research associate for 1972-1980, an Associate professor for 1980-1989, and a Professor for 1989-1994. He was a Professor at Tohoku University for 1994-2009 and a Fellow at Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute for 2009-2013. He is currently the Director at Institute for Quantum Chemical Exploration. Hiroko Satoh received her Ph.D. degree (chemistry) from Ochanomizu University in 1996. She was a post-doctoral fellow at natural product total synthesis laboratory at RIKEN in 1996-1998 and conducted her project on data-driven chemistry under a PRESTO program of Japan Science Technology Agency (JST) in 1998-2001. She was appointed as assistant professor in 2000 and promoted to associate professor in 2002 at National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. In 2015 she moved to University of Zurich and was concurrently appointed as associate professor at Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan. Her research interests cover a broad range of development and applications of computational and data-driven chemistry.