Dr. Hyunjune Sebastien Seung is currently Professor of Computational Neuroscience at the Brain & Cognitive Sciences Department, and Professor of Physics at the Physics Department, at MIT. He is also Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Seung received his undergraduate education in Physics at Harvard where he went on to receive a Ph.D. in 1990. During the ensuing years of 1990-1992, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Golda Meir and Harold Perlman Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Racah Institute of Physics and Center for Neural Computation at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Prior to MIT where he has been teaching since 1998, he was a staff of the Theoretical Physics Department at Bell Laboratories, and a visiting faculty member at the Sloane Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at U. California in San Francisco.

In addition to his lectures at MIT, Dr. Seung has lectured at over 130 universities and scientific meetings throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, and co-organized various meetings including Dynamics of Neural Networks: From Biophysics to Behavior at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at U. California (2001), Dynamical Neuroscience IX: Timing, Persistence and Feedback Control at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (2001), and the Meeting on Neural Circuits: Principles of Design and Operation at the Banbury Center in Cold Spring Harbor (2003). He is also currently a member and associate of the Advisory Committee of the Neural Computation & Adaptive Perception Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He has co-authored some 50 journal papers, and contributed a chapter for The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks: Second Edition from MIT Press.