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Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington

Dr. Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad received her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Amirkabir University of Technology and her Master's degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Tehran in Iran. She then moved to the United States and earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Afterwards, she pursued her Postdoctoral Fellowship in Systems Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Yazdan-Shahmorad joined the University of Washington in the Fall of 2017 as the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Assistant Professor of Neuroengineering in the departments of Bioengineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Throughout her career, Dr. Yazdan has developed new tools and techniques for investigating brain function and plasticity using advanced neuromodulation technologies. Her long-term goal is to use neural technologies to develop stimulation-based therapies to help restore function and mobility in people with neurological disorders such as stroke.

Dr. Yazdan-Shahmorad is the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Brain Grand Challenges Young Investigator Award, and the 2018 Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Award and the 2022 American Heart Association Career Development Award. Her research in targeted sensorimotor plasticity was selected as a Hot Topic of 2016 by the Society for Neuroscience. She is also currently a Weill Neurohub Investigator, a program aimed to foster cross-campus, interdisciplinary teams of researchers to explore, create, and test bold new concepts and technologies for treating neurological and psychiatric diseases. Dr. Yazdan has recently received an Excellence in Mentorship Award from the University of Washington Bioengineering Department as well as the Junior Faculty Award from the University of Washington College of Engineering.

Experience

  • –present
    Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Education

  • 2011 
    University of Michigan, Biomedical Engineering