THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT BOUGHT A 2025 COGS HOODIE!!!
Meet the 2025 Executives!
Members might enable COGS to exist, but Executives keep the show running.
Young Oh
President, Interim Technical and Interim Co-People & Culture Executive
Current BCBS student in their 2nd year of study. Extraordinarily creative, a critical-thinker and adaptable, Young has helped reshape COGS' by: Flattening the organisational structure and introducing Policies and Processes; Improving organisational culture with focused executive support and co-developing/executing intra-team upskilling programs; Cleaning workflows through automation and SAAS deployments such as website hosting and creation.
Kayla Rail
Treasurer
Current BCBS alumni pursuing a Masters of Research at Macquarie University. Sharp on attention-to-detail, proactive and analytical, Kayla has empowered COGS to pursue the right growth initiatives by providing accurate and timely financial analyses of prospective events and IT infrastructure investments. Her proactivity has facilitated business continuity by maintaining financial data down to the granularity of SAAS costs.
Rosalie Gibbs
Secretary
Current BCBS student in their 2nd year of study. Highly professional, interpersonal and resilient, Rosie has enabled COGS to communicate efficiently through translating business requirements spanning internal to external stakeholders, hosting impactful meetings and overhauling the entirety of COGS' data to ensure timely fulfilment of deliverables.
Maitreyi Sundaram
Events Manager
Current BCBS and BPsych student in her 2nd year of study. Incredibly insightful on CX, networking and organisation, Maitreyi has hosted COGS events within highly demanding operational conditions, including but not limited to weather, supply-chain volatility and stakeholder pressure. Her networking proficiency has opened doors for COGS to establish a transdisciplinary intra-varsity coalition, making impactful steps towards accomplishing our Mission.
Mogi Moroka
Social Media & Marketing Officer
Current BCBS student in their 2nd year of study. Extremely creative, optimistic and a project management enthusiast, Mogi has alleviated COGS' long-standing pain-point of an inadequate organisational exposure, expanding platform reach from Instagram to incorporate X (Twitter), LinkedIn and Facebook, and incorporating automation into the content pipeline to ensure maximum impact with minimal resource consumption.
Taylah Brown
Diversity & Inclusion and Co-People & Culture Executive
Current BCBS student in their 2nd year of study. Culturally knowledgeable, confidentiality-aware and a change-management expert, Taylah has improved internal innovation through promoting diverse ideas and progressive hiring practices, and assisted in change-management initiatives such as implementing an internal upskilling program and supporting SOP development.
Current HDR student conducting research at MQU. As the only Executive that has remained since COGS' inception, Patricia has fundamentally been responsible for the success COGS has achieved, from single-handedly planning and executing events pre-2025, to always volunteering as available personnel. We are indebted to her ongoing participation in the Society, and are grateful to access her guidance and experience.
Patricia Macabulos
HDR Liason
About COGS Society
Based in Australia and co-founded in November 2022 by Connor-Ellem Sanders and Chantelle Alison, COGS always had a Vision in becoming an association representing the forefront of Neuro/Cognitive Science research and application. It follows that our Mission is to foster a transdisciplinary community that contributes meaningfully to our Vision.
Over the years we have cultivated this modest yet tightly-knit group of BCBS students, alumni, faculty staff and international academics/enthusiasts that make this community what it is - a think-tank of avant-garde intellectuals ready to drive the global future. Our transdisciplinary identity empowers this ability to drive worldwide change; we are forward-thinking on how Neuro/Cognitive Science intersects with other industries; We are confident that Artificial Intelligence will bridge COGS into a post-AI world of Brain-Machine Interfacing technologies, melding with cutting-edge discoveries in Healthcare to not only improve human cognition - but be at the forefront of clinical treatments into neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's etc.
We are ambitious and motivated for the good of humanity, but we also harbour a modus operandi of sustainable growth. COGS is currently cultivating this growth through taking small-steps to elevate positive mental health locally in Australia - our social media channels allow people to take small but positively impactful steps to mental wellbeing, based on consolidated medical evidence. Provided the brain is widely regarded as the most important organ in the body, the idea of 'healthy mind, healthy body' is a reality COGS is focused on enabling.
COGS is the future, but we are not without our people. Whether you are from Enterprise or a prospective Member, we invite you all to join this community.
