Dr. Sebastian Palacios is an multidisciplinary engineer and researcher with a wide range of expertise and focuses on the development of computational methods, particularly neural networks-based approaches, for engineering applications.

He received his Ph.D. from MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 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 multiple awards including the Institute-wide award for most outstanding undergraduate researcher in the College of Engineering and the award for most outstanding undergraduate researcher in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.