The affiliations listed below were current as August 2015, when this course was taught; some affiliations will change over time.
| Course Instructors | |
| Andrei Barbu | Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, MIT |
| James DiCarlo | Department Head & Peter de Florez Professor of Neuroscience, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences |
| Winrich Freiwald | Associate Professor, Laboratory of Neural Systems, Rockefeller University; Faculty Investigator, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Hynek Hermansky | Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director, Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University |
| Leyla Isik | Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, MIT |
| Nancy Kanwisher | Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Research Thrust Leader, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Boris Katz | Principal Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Co-Coordinator of Knowledge and Technology Transfer & Research Thrust Co-Leader, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Gabriel Kreiman | Associate Professor, Departments of Ophthalmology & Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Faculty Investigator, Children's Hospital, Center for Brain Science, Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, and Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative, Harvard University; Research Thrust Leader, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| John Leonard | Associate Department Head & Samuel C. Collins Professor, MIT Department of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering |
| Alia Martin | Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, Harvard University |
| Josh McDermott | Fred and Carol Middleton Career Development Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Faculty Investigator, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Giorgio Metta | Vice Scientific Director and Director of the iCub Facility Department, Italian Institute of Technology; International Partner, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Ethan Meyers | Assistant Professor of Statistics, Hampshire College; Research Affiliate, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Ken Nakayama | Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University; Faculty Investigator, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Aude Oliva | Principal Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab |
| Tomaso Poggio | Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Director, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Tony Prescott | Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sheffield; Director, Sheffield Robotics Center |
| Lorenzo Rosasco | Assistant Professor, University of Genova; Visiting Assistant Professor, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Team Leader, Italian Institute of Technology; Faculty Investigator, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Rebecca Saxe | Professor of Cognitive Science, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Faculty Investigator, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Laura Schulz | Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Faculty Investigator, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Haim Sompolinsky | William N. Skirball Professor of Neuroscience, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Hebrew University; Investigator, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University; Faculty Investigator, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Liz Spelke | Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard; Director, Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Harvard University; Associate Director, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Russ Tedrake | Professor, MIT Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Mechanical Engineering; Director, Center for Robotics, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab |
| Stefanie Tellex | Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Brown University |
| Josh Tenenbaum | Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Research Thrust Leader, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Shimon Ullman | Samy and Ruth Cohn Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science; Adjunct Professor, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Research Thrust Co-Leader, Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines |
| Tomer Ullman | Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, MIT |
| Matt Wilson | Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and Picower Scholar, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Associate Director, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Patrick Winston | Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Coordinator for Research, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Dan Yamins | Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences & McGovern Institute |
| Guest Speakers | |
| Larry Abbott | William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience & Director, Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, Columbia University |
| Surya Ganguli | Assistant Professor, Departments of Applied Physics, Neurobiology, and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University |
| Tom Mitchell | E. Fredkin University Professor, Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Amnon Shashua | Co-Founder and Chairman, Orcam; Co-Founder, CTO and Chairman, Mobileye; Professor of Computer Science, Hebrew University; International and Industrial Partner, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |
| Eero Simoncelli | Professor, Departments of Neural Science, Mathematics, and Psychology, New York University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Jessica Sommerville | Associate Professor, Department of Psychology & Associate Director, Foundations for Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Competence, Center for Child and Family Well-Being, University of Washington |
| iCub Team | |
| Raffaello Camoriano | PhD Fellow, Italian Institute of Technology |
| Carlo Ciliberto | Postdoctoral Associate, Italian Institute of Technology |
| Giulia Pasquale | PhD Fellow, Italian Institute of Technology |
| Alessandro Roncone | Postdoctoral Associate, Italian Institute of Technology |
| Other Contributors | |
Ellen Hildreth |
Coordinator of Summer Course materials and OCW content development Professor, Department of Computer Science, Wellesley College |
Daniel Zysman |
MATLAB® tutorial content development and instructor Computational Course Instructor, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Education Affiliate, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines |