Establishment of Institute for Brain and Cognition was approved at the January 20, 2017 meeting of the University Council.

In this meeting, the issue of establishing a research center for brain sciences and its recognition and articles of association were reviewed by Dr. Fathollahi, Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology.
He said: "This center will be established in order to expand the relationship with the applied sector and the target community and to meet the needs of different research departments in the field of engineering sciences, which will act as a demand-driven or type two research center".