The Council consists of one representative per participating institution. These members provide liaison between the Steering Committee and their institution. The NYSGrid Council consists of the following members.
| Albany (SUNY) | Brian Macherone | bsm@albany.edu |
| Alfred University | TBD | |
| Binghamton (SUNY) | Mark Reed | mreed@binghamton.edu |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory | David Stampf | drs@bnl.gov |
| Buffalo (SUNY) | Jorge Jose | vpr@research.buffalo.edu |
| Columbia University | Alan Crosswell | alan@columbia.edu |
| Cornell University | Dave Lifka | lifka@tc.cornell.edu |
| Cornell University, Weill Medical College | TBD | |
| Geneseo (SUNY) | TBD | |
| Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, inc. | Charles M. Weeks | weeks@hwi.buffalo.edu |
| Marist College | TBD | |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | TBD | |
| New York University (NYU) | Randy Wright | randy.wright@nyu.edu |
| Niagara University | Mary McCourt | mpm@niagara.edu |
| Polytechnic University | Kurt Becker | kbecker@poly.edu |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) | Guy Johnson | Guy.johnson@rit.edu |
| University of Rochester | Eric E. Fredericksen | eric.fredericksen@rochester.edu |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) | Mark D. Miller | millem@rpi.edu |
| Stony Brook (SUNY) | Alex Mohr | amohr@cs.sunysb.edu |
| Syracuse University | Paul Gandel | pgandel@syr.edu |
| NYSERNet | Bill Owens | owens@nysernet.org |