With over twenty years of combined neuroscience and engineering training, Kinney has worked on methods for the automated reconstruction of the anatomical structure of the brain from nanoscale-resolution images, as well as scalable neural recording technologies for obtaining high-speed electrical signals from sites distributed throughout the brain. Kinney designed and built a tool for performing closed-loop ultraprecise, automated craniotomies. Kinney was a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Sejnowski's lab before he joined as a postdoctoral associate the lab of Ed Boyden in the Media Lab at MIT. ( Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. Mechanical Engineering ‘98 / Georgia Institute of Technology, M.S. Mechanical Engineering ‘99/ University of California- San Diego, Terrence Sejnowski Lab at Salk Institute, Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering ‘09).