August 2026 Newsletter

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University of Washington

Honors and Awards

Last month, UW CNT faculty member Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad served as a conference chair for the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Toronto, Canada.

Neurotech Justice Research Symposium 2026 (August 14, 2026; Somerville, MA and online)
Paris Circuit Dynamics Conference & Workshop (September 16-17, 2026; Paris, France)
Neuroethics 2027 (April 7-9, 2027; Madrid, Spain)
BNA2027 International Festival of Neuroscience (April 25-28. 2027; Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Neural Control of Movement 2027 (April 26-30, 2027; Sevilla, Spain)
10th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (July 26-29, 2027; Edinburgh, UK)

Felix Schwock, a graduate student in the lab of CNT faculty member Azadeh Yazdan, discusses his research with the IEEE Brain Podcast.

Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Biophysics, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
Associate Program Officer, Biomedical and Health Sciences Program, National Academies of Science (Washington, D.C.)
Assistant Scientist, SOM, University of Miami (Miami, FL)
Assistant Professor, NeuroAI, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)