Dr. Sebastian Palacios received his Ph.D. from MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science where his research focused on the intersection of artificial intelligence, computing, and biology. He has been featured in Colombian news outlets as one of the brightest persons of Colombian descent.

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 predoctoral training fellowship, and was awarded 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 award for most outstanding undergraduate researcher in the College of Engineering. 

He is currently pioneering the development of novel computational methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computing, and biology.