The steering committee consists of the two founders plus one organizer from each of the last two editions of MVD.
Current Members
| Gianfranco Ciardo | Iowa State University |
| Omar Chowdhury | The University of Iowa |
| Pavithra Prabhakar | Kansas State University |
| Cesare Tinelli (co-founder) | The University of Iowa |
Past Members
| Perry Alexander | The University of Kansas |
| Rohit Chadha | University of Missouri |
| Aaron Stump (co-founder) | The University of Iowa |
| Michael Whalen | The University of Minnesota |
| Mahesh Viswanathan | The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Lenore Zuck | The University of Illinois at Chicago |