Sebastian Seung, a Korean-American, is an interdisciplinary neuroscientist whose career bridges physics, computer science, and neuroscience. Today, he is best known for pioneering the field of connectomics —the effort to map the brain’s wiring, or the connectome . His journey to this point has been anything but ordinary. Seung entered Harvard University at just sixteen, initially drawn to mathematics and physics. By 1990, he had completed a Ph.D. in theoretical physics, focus