Sebastian Seung has helped pioneer the new field of connectomics, "developing new computational technologies for mapping the connections between neurons, " and has been described as the cartographer of the brain.
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20 Facts About Sebastian Seung
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Sebastian Seung is most well known as a proponent of connectomics through his Ted talk "I am my Connectome" and his book Connectome which was named top 10 nonfiction books of the year 2012 by the Wall Street Journal and has been translated into dozens of languages.
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Sebastian Seung has founded EyeWire, an online computer game that mobilizes social computing and machine learning on a mission to map the human brain.
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Sebastian Seung is known for his 1999 joint work on non-negative matrix factorization, an important algorithm used in AI and data science.
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Sebastian Seung's father Thomas Seung is a philosophy professor at the University of Texas, Austin, and Korean-American immigrant who escaped North Korea as a teenager.
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Sebastian Seung's mother is Kwihwan Hahn, a graduate of Juilliard, and he has two younger siblings, a brother, currently a professor at Harvard Medical School, and a sister, currently a psychiatrist.
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Sebastian Seung studied theoretical physics as an undergraduate at Harvard University, taking graduate courses as a sophomore when he was 17 years old.
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Sebastian Seung then went straight into Harvard's graduate program and obtained his Ph.
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Sebastian Seung returned to the Bell Labs and was a member of the Theoretical Physics Department.
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Since 2014, Sebastian Seung joined the faculty at Princeton as a professor in neuroscience at the Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics.
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Sebastian Seung now leads a team working on an online citizen science project, EyeWire.
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Sebastian Seung focuses on the potential implications of the Human Connectome Project and what it would mean to map the connectome of a human brain.
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Sebastian Seung has popularized the connectome theory through his 2010 TED Conference speech titled “I Am My Connectome” as well as through his 2012 book Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are.
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Sebastian Seung proposes that every memory, skill, and passion is encoded somehow in the connectome.
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Sebastian Seung helped set up experiments with Tank and Nobel Laureate Richard Axel to find memories in the connectome.
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Sebastian Seung continues to study neural networks using mathematical models, computer algorithms, and circuits of biological neurons in vitro.
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Sebastian Seung has been a Sloan Research Fellow, a Packard Fellow, and a McKnight Scholar.
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Sebastian Seung has won the Ho-am Prize in Engineering and has been named top 10 non-fiction authors by the WSJ for his book Connectome.
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