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Hi! My name is Sebastian Ruiz, this is my website!

Adapted for Jekyll by Chris Bobbe.

Interests

Here are some of my interests, academic or otherwise.

Models of the Brain

Models of the Brain

Learning Communities and Open-Access Education

Learning Communities and Open-Access Education

Japanese Minimal Electronic Music

Japanese Minimal Electronic Music

Food

Food

Nature

Nature

My Family

My Family

About Me

I'm from South Florida, and I currently live in Tallahassee while I work on my Bachelor's degree in Statistics, with minors in Computational Science and Psychology. I enjoy nerdy stuff like underground rap music and japanese minimal ambient music, london fog teas, and walks through nature with my girlfriend.

My goal is to earn a PhD in Computational Neuroscience, Statistics, or both (I'm looking at you, CMU...). I did an internship at Carnegie Mellon University in computational neuroscience, but I'm eager to learn more and keep learning. This summer, I'll be joining Brown University as a Carney Summer Scholar working with Dr. Mohamed Sherif with tools like Monty by the Thousand Brains Project.

I founded CompNeuroSociety at FSU in 2025 out of a desire to build a community around computational neuroscience at my current institution, and to build an avenue to keep developing my skills in my preferred field of study.

Photo Album

A collection of my favorite photos and memories.

Seb and Jenny at NYC bar

Seb + Jenny

Me and my girlfriend at a bar in New York City

Childhood friends group photo

Squad

Me and my childhood friends

Top of hike in Providence

Hike at the Loma

Top of the hike in Providence, RI

Batman costume outside Insomnia Cookies

Batman

Me at 3 am outside of insomnia cookies banging on the door to get my fix

Newport Beach Rhode Island

Beach

From trip to Newport Beach in Rhode Island

Hackathon with Andre

Hackathon

Me and Andre at his house for a 24 hour hackathon which we lost

Georgia backroads drive

Backroads

Driving through the backroads of Georgia for a trip

NYC botanical gardens greenhouse

Greenhouse

Inside the greenhouse at the botanical gardens in New York City

Brown University campus garden

Garden

Somewhere on Brown University's campus

NYC streets from teleferry

New York Streets

Taken on a teleferry ride in New York City

Beach town bridge at night

Nightlights

Beach town at night crossing a bridge

Ladder against blue sky

Ladder

This photo represents the struggle of reaching new heights... just kidding just a cool ladder I saw with a blue sky in the background I thought it was cool

Contact

Feel free to write a message!