Visiting Committee
Every department at MIT has a Visiting Committee that consists of distinguished scholars, MIT graduates, and several members of the MIT Corporation. These committees typically meet once every two years, at MIT, to hear reports from the Department Head/Director, the faculty, and current students about the department’s current activities and future direction. These committees prepare reports for the President, Provost, and Chancellor that provide an important source of external evaluation for each department. The members of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society Visiting Committee are listed below. The next IDSS Visiting Committee meeting will be held in November of 2020.
Mr. Mark Gorenberg, Chair
’76 EE
Managing Director
Zetta Venture Partners
Dr. R. Erich Caulfield
’01 EE, ’06 EE
Founder and President
The Caulfield Consulting Group
Mr. James Champy
’63 CE, ‘65 CE
Business Consultant and Author
Dr. Jennifer Chayes
Technical Fellow & Managing Director
Microsoft Research New England & NYC
Mr. John Chisholm
’75 EE, ’76 EE
CEO
John Chisholm Ventures
Professor Erica R. Fuchs
’99 ML, ’03 TPP, ’06 ES
Department of Engineering & Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Arthur Gelb
‘61 AA
President
Four Sigma Corporation
Professor Peter Glynn
Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Ms. Jean Hammond
‘86 GM
Partner and Co-Founder
LearnLaunch
Professor William Hogan
Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Professor Matthew Jackson
Professor, Department of Economics
Stanford University
Dr. Maria M. Klawe
President
Harvey Mudd College
Mr. Temitope Lawani
’91 CE
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Helios Investment Partners
Mr. R. Preston McAfee
Former Chief Economist
Microsoft Corporation
Mr. Jim Miller
‘93 ME, SM ’93
Dr. Thomas Richardson
EE ‘90
Vice President, Engineering
Qualcomm Incorporated
Mr. Jeffrey Silver
’03 MNG
Founder
Coyote Logistics
Dr. Hal Varian
’69 EC
Chief Economist
Google Inc.
Mr. C.J. Whelan, III
’92 EE, ’93 MSF
Founder and President
Front Range Technology Group, LLC
Professor Jeannette Wing
’79 EE, EE ’83
Director, Data Science Institute
Columbia University