Sebastian Seung headshot
Current Visiting Professor

Sebastian Seung

Affiliation

Natural Sciences

Field of study

Computational Neuroscience

Home institution

Princeton University
Sebastian Seung has done influential research in both computer science and neuroscience. Over the past decade, he helped pioneer the new field of connectomics, developing machine learning and social computing technologies for reconstructing neural circuits from high resolution brain images.

Visits

Visiting Professor
School of Natural Sciences
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Degrees

Harvard University
Ph.D.
1990
Harvard College
A.B.
1986

Honors

2026
National Academy of Sciences USA
2026
Pradel Research Award
2026
Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences