Pineda, SebastianHe/him
Graduate Student
MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

    43 Vassar Street,  Room: 46-4285
    Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

    Email: spineda@mit.edu

    Education & Training

    Texas A&M University
    B.S., Electrical Engineering, 2018

    Short Biography

    Sebastian graduated from Texas A&M University in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. His undergraduate research in the lab of Dr. Sung Il Park focused on developing flexible and wireless microscale neural implants for optogenetics and neurosurgical applications. Sebastian joined the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in August 2018 as a PhD student with the intent of doing research at the interface of electrical engineering and biology. He joined the laboratories of Myriam Heiman at the Broad Institute and Manolis Kellis at CSAIL and currently works on developing experimental and computational tools to study neurodegeneration and aging at the single-cell level.