The following 52 participants from 38 unique institutions have confirmed their participation in the conference.
| Meina Cai University of Connecticut | Edmund Malesky Duke University |
| Ling Chen Johns Hopkins University | Daniel Mattingly Yale University |
| Bruce Dickson George Washington University | Andrew Mertha Johns Hopkins University |
| Martin Dimitrov Tulane University | Andrew J. Nathan Columbia University |
| Iza (Yue) Ding University of Pittsburgh | Emerson Niou Duke University |
| Songying Fang Rice University | Jean C. Oi Stanford University |
| Joseph Fewsmith Boston University | Lynette Ong University of Toronto |
| M. Taylor Fravel Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Jennifer Pan Stanford University |
| Mary E. Gallagher University of Michigan | Margaret Pearson University of Maryland, College Park |
| Sheena Greitens University of Missouri | Elizabeth Perry Harvard University |
| Avery Goldstein University of Pennsylvania | Kerry Ratigan Amherst College |
| Dimitar Gueorguiev Syracuse University | Maria Repnikova Georgia State University |
| Yinan He Lehigh University | Meg Rithmire Harvard University |
| Victoria Tin-Bor Hui University of Notre Dame | Weiyi Shi University of California, San Diego |
| Yue Hou University of Pennsylvania | Victor Shih University of California, San Diego |
| Haifeng Huang University of California, Merced | Hiroki Takeuchi Southern Methodist University |
| William Hurst Northwestern University | Yeling Tan University of Oregan |
| Tyler Jost Brown University | Rory Truex Princeton University |
| Scott Kastner University of Maryland, College Park | Lily Tsai Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Karrie Koesel University of Notre Dame | Samantha Vortherms University of California, Irvine |
| Ning Leng Georgetown University | Jeremy Wallace Cornell University |
| Xiaojun Li University of British Columbia | Yuhua Wang Harvard University |
| Dalton Lin George Institute of Technology | Jessica Chen Weiss Cornell University |
| Lizhi Liu Georgetown University | Yiqing Xu Stanford University |
| Kristen Looney Georgetown University | Min Ye Boston University |
| Xiaobo Lü University of Texas at Austin | Boliang Zhu Pennsylvania State University |
| Melanie Manion Duke University |
