The BCS Council is a faculty committee that sets long-term strategies for the department. It serves as an advisory committee to ensure that departmental decisions are informed by a broad array of voices, and that all the leaders in the building are comfortable with and enthusiastic about those decisions.

• Michale Fee, chair
• Rebecca Saxe
• Laura Schulz
• Josh McDermott
• Robert Desimone
• Li-Huei Tsai
• Tomaso Poggio
• Emery Brown
• Mriganka Sur
• Jim DiCarlo
• Ev Fedorenko
• Robert Yang
• Mark Bear
• Josh Tenenbaum
• Elly Nedivi
• Troy Littleton

Staff contact: Tristan Davies, Administrative Officer

The Education Committee creates, reviews and approves curricula, classes, qualifying exams, and undergraduate and graduate degree requirements.

• Mehrdad Jazayeri, Chair 
• Matt Wilson, member
• Ev Fedorenko, member
• Sierra Vallin, member
• Julianne Ormerod, member
• Theresa Tomic, member
• Myriam Heiman, ad hoc member
• Mark Harnett, ad hoc member
• Laura Schulz, ad hoc member
• Halie Olson, graduate student representative
• Bhav Jain, undergraduate representative

BCS and Building 46 community strive to build and sustain a diverse, open, welcoming culture, dedicated to academic excellence and a shared commitment to each other’s wellbeing. The Community of Practice is a cross-hierarchical, building-wide organization of people committed to developing an inclusive, fair and equitable culture where every individual, irrespective of his/her background, has a real chance to excel.

Learn more about DEIJ in BCS.

Staff contact: Tristan Davies, Administrative Officer

The Graduate Student Affairs oversees the graduate program, including recruitment, admissions, mentorship, and student progress through the qualifying exams.

• Mark Harnett, Chair, Graduate Officer
• Margaret Schroeder, graduate student representative
• Nancy Kanwisher, rotations coordinator
• Roger Levy, first year advisor, quals, and committees
• Steven Flavell, website
• Fan Wang

Staff contact: Sierra Vallin, Academic Administrator

Graduate Admissions oversees the admissions cycle.

• Matt Wilson (chair)
• Michale Fee
• Ila Fiete
• Ted Gibson
• Josh McDermott
• Elly Nedivi
• Mandana Sassanfar

Staff contact: Julianne Ormerod, Academic Program Coordinator

The Seminar Committee oversees the MIT Colloquium on the Brain and Cognition by suggesting, and accepting suggestions for, colloquium speakers; assessing current BCS colloquia series and proposing improvements; and reviewing proposals for new series or speakers.

• Alan Jasanoff, Chair
• Polina Anikeeva
• Gloria Choi, Picower Representative
• Evelina Fedorenko, BCS Representative
• Ann Graybiel, McGovern Representative
• Earl Miller
• Drazen Prelec
• Héctor de Jesús-Cortés, postdoctoral representative
• Ni Ji, postdoctoral representative
• Chen Sun, graduate student representative

Staff contact: Tristan Davies, Administrative Officer

The charge of the BCS Junior Faculty Mentoring Committee is to assess the needs of junior faculty, recommend strategies to ensure effective mentorship, and help junior faculty obtain effective mentorship. This Committee is not an evaluation body, but a venue in which junior faculty can get advice without concern that they are being judged.

• Nancy Kanwisher, Chair
• Mark Bear
• ​Elly Nedivi

Staff contact: Tristan Davies, Administrative Officer

The Community Conveners are members of specific BCS sub-communities who assess needs, organize events, and represent their communities in decision-making processes.

Postdocs

• Hector De Jesus-Cortes

Grad students

• Daniel Estandian
• Meg McCue

Undergraduates

• Nahom Marie
• Leigh-Ana Rossitto

Staff contact: Tristan Davies, Administrative Officer

This committee addresses the computational needs of the department.

• Satra Ghosh, Chair
• Ila Fiete
• Josh McDermott
• Jim DiCarlo
• Vikash Mansinghka
• Shaohao Chen
• Sasha Rakhlin
• Feng Zhang

Staff contact: Tristan Davies, Administrative Officer