• Sebastian Seung

    Professor of Computer Science and Princeton Neurosciences Institute
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    153 Princeton Neuroscience Institute
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    (609) 258-7713
    Diploma
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1990
    Sebastian Seung
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    Sebastian Seung is the Anthony B. Evnin ’62 Professor in Neuroscience and professor of computer science. 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. Learn more about his lab.

    Seung joined the Princeton faculty in 2014 after several years as a professor at MIT. He completed his doctoral work at Harvard and has worked at Bell Labs and Samsung Research. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an external member of the Max Planck Society. His work has been recognized by a Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences, the 2026 Pradel Award from the National Academy of Sciences, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and the 2008 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering. 

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