Sebastian Seung

H. Sebastian Seung
Fields	neuroscience physics
Institutions	Princeton University MIT Bell Labs
Education	Harvard University (PhD) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PostDoc)
Thesis	Physics of Lines and Surfaces (1990)
Doctoral advisor	David Robert Nelson
Known for	Connectome Theory Non-negative matrix factorization
Notable awards	Sloan Fellowship
Website http://seunglab.org/

Hyunjune Sebastian Seung (Hangul: 승현준; Hanja: 承現峻;) is a Korean American multi-disciplinary expert whose research efforts have spanned the fields of neuroscience, physics and bioinformatics. He was a professor of Computational Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is now a professor at Princeton University. He also was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Seung studied theoretical physics at Harvard University where he obtained his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of David Robert Nelson. Seung's doctoral dissertation is entitled "Physics of Lines and Surfaces." He completed his postdoctoral training at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before joining the MIT faculty, he was a member of the Theoretical Physics Department at Bell Laboratories.

Seung leads a team working on an online Citizen science project named EyeWire. It is human-based computation game about tracing neurons in the retina. The game was developed by MIT and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research.

The connectome is a term that refers to a map of neural connections within the brain. Seung focuses his attention on the potential implications of the Human Connectome Project and what it would mean to map the connectome of a human. Seung has been able to popularize the Connectome Theory through his 2010 Ted Conference speech titled “I Am My Connectome” as well as through his book Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are released in 2012.

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