People Representatives

GSC Representatives

The Graduate Student Council utilizes a representative structure to understand the needs of the graduate student population at MIT. GSC Representatives are voting members of the GSC General Council, and these representatives include:

  • one representative per 100 students, not to exceed 5, in every graduate department and program
  • one representative from each on-campus residence
  • two representatives living off-campus
  • five at-large representatives: three have been designated as representatives for Women, Minorities, and Graduate Students with Families; the other two are currently unallocated.

What Do Representatives Do?

All representatives are voting members of the GSC General Council while bridging the communication between the GSC and the representative's constituency. Representatives are required to attend the GSC General Council Meeting, held on the first Wednesday of each month.

To Become a Representative

If there is a position you would like to apply for, you will also need to fill out an Application for Representative Nomination. This will require you to collect the signatures of 20% or 20 members (whichever is less) of your constituency. The completed form should be brought to the GSC Office (50-220). Please contact the GSC Vice President () with any questions.

Funding

The GSC provides funding to each of its representatives to plan events for their constituency. Find out more about financial resources available for reps.

Current List of GSC Representatives

Reps for Academic Departments
Department Representative(s) In good standing?
(missed less than half of eligible meetings)
* denotes perfect attendance
Aeronautics and Astronautics Paul Grogan
Justin Kaderka
Jared Krueger		 Y
Y
Y
Architecture

Shani Sharif
Varvara Toukeridou
1 position available

N
Y
--
Biological Engineering Division Anusuya Das
Scott Carlson

Y
Y*
Biology Lynne Waldman
2 positions available
 N
--
Brain and Cognitive Science 1 position available --
Chemical Engineering

Woo Chung
Steven Elliott
Abhinav Akhoury

 Y*
Y
N
Chemistry 3 positions available --
Civil & Environmental Engineering Anwar Ghauche
2 positions available 		N
--
CDO Jingting Zhou
 Y*
Comparative Media Studies Madeleine Elish N
Computational and Systems Biology Christoph Engert Y
Earth, Atmosphere, and Planetary Science

Maria Gabriela Melo Silva
Amanda Zangari

 Y*
Y*
Economics David Molitor
Eliza Rogers
 Y
Y
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Will Chung
Sidney Tsai
Robert Wang
Xiaomeng Shi
1 position available		 Y
Y
Y
Y
--
Engineering Systems Division Goodman Xiaoyuan Gu
Ellie Ereira
Farzan Sasangohar
 Y*
N
N
Health Sciences and Technology Pam Basto
Adeeti Ullal
Sofia Vallila
Alex German
 N
Y
Y
Y*
Linguistics and Philosophy Daniel Hagen Y
Management Lynn Wu
Sakshi Kapahi
Ayusman Sarangi
John Truesdell
Jennifer Tutak
 N
N
N
N
Y*
Materials Science and Engineering

Melissa Smith
Heather Murdoch
Elizabeth Rapoport

Y
Y*
Y*
Mathematics Leonid Chindelevitch
1 position available		 Y
--
Mechanical Engineering
(including Ocean Engineering)		 Sze Zheng Yong
Sourabh Kumar Saha
Cherry Wan
Matt Ueckerman
Eli Paster 		Y
Y*
Y
Y
Y*
Media Arts and Sciences

Ankur Mani
Ryan O'Toole

 Y*
Y
Nuclear Engineering Paul Kollath-Romano
Jacob DeWitte
 Y
Y*
Physics David Guarrera
Obioma Ohia
1 position available
 N
N
--
Political Science Rachel Wellhausen N
Science, Technology, and Society 1 position available
 --
Urban Studies and Planning 3 positions available --
MIT/WHOI Fern Gibbons Y

Reps for On-campus Residences and Off-Campus
Residence Representative(s) In good standing?
(missed less than half of eligible meetings)
* denotes perfect attendance
Ashdown House (On-campus Residence) Karan Mistry
 Y
Eastgate (On-campus Residence) Scott Valastyan
(Julie Valastyan)		 Y
Edgerton (On-campus Residence) Aliaa Atwi
 N
Sidney-Pacific (On-campus Residence) 1 position available
 --
Tang Hall (On-campus Residence) Rajarshi Ghosh Y
Warehouse (On-campus Residence) 1 position available
 --
Westgate (On-campus Residence) Mia White
(Andrew Freese)		 Y
Off-campus Housing Ming Tang
Caroline Cochran
 Y
Y

Other At-large Reps
Group Representative(s) In good standing?
(missed less than half of eligible meetings)
* denotes perfect attendance
Minorities 1 position available --
Graduate Women 1 position available --
Graduate Families and Parents 1 position available
 --
At-large 1 position available
 --
At-large Zhao Chen N