UW ECE doctoral student Mingfei Chen has been awarded a 2025 Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Perception. This award is one of the most competitive honors for doctoral students in artificial intelligence research today.

UW ECE Professor Maryam Fazel received the award for her foundational work in the field of optimization and for pioneering contributions to data science and artificial intelligence.

UW ECE Professor Emerita Irene Peden passed away on August 22, 2025, just a few weeks before her 100th birthday. She was an exceptional researcher and educator who created pathways to success for women in engineering throughout her career.

This new program supports transfer of research into commercial products through prototyping, customer discovery, and market analysis. Learn how UW ECE-EFP fellows are translating their ideas into impact.

The Institute for Foundations of Data Science brought AI and machine learning experts together from across the nation to explore the mathematical, statistical, and algorithmic underpinnings of modern AI systems — advancing theory to better understand and improve AI technology.

In a first-of-its-kind demonstration, UW ECE and BioE Associate Professor Azadeh Yazdan and her research team have shown that applying electrical stimulation to the brain within an hour after the onset of an ischemic stroke may significantly reduce brain damage.









