Dr. Sebastian Palacios received his Ph.D. from MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and has broad expertise in computing, electronics, bioengineering, and artificial intelligence.

During his graduate studies, he received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, the Harvard-MIT Martha Gray Prize for Excellence in Research, MIT's Shillman Fellowship, MIT's University Center for Exemplary Mentoring Sloan Fellowship, an NIH/MIT fellowship, and was awarded Institute-wide for excellence in leadership at the MIT Awards Convocation.

He received M.S. and B.S. degrees from MIT and Georgia Tech in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science. During his undergraduate studies, he received a nearly perfect GPA and received the Institute-wide award for most outstanding undergraduate researcher in the College of Engineering.

He is currently working on the development of advanced computing and artificial intelligence algorithms for applications ranging from electronics to synthetic biology.