Divya Sivakumar
About Divya is a current undergraduate pursuing a major in Neuroscience with a minor in Data Science at Boston University and is working on the R01 Bilingual Computational Modeling project at the Center for Brain Recovery (CBR). Her responsibilities for this project include administering and scoring neuropsychological assessments, assisting with patient recruitment, coding semantic errors, […]
Joshua (Drake) Sullivan
About Drake is an undergraduate student at BU majoring in Neuroscience, minoring in Chemistry, on the pre-med track. Drake fell in love with medicine and neuroscience after surviving a traumatic brain injury, leading him to pursue acute brain injury research. After graduation, Drake plans to attend medical school, eventually seeking a neurosurgical residency. At CBR, […]
Sihyun Sung
About I am a third-year Neuroscience major on the pre-medical track with interests in bilingualism, cognitive science, and clinical neuroscience. As an Intern at the CBR, I work on the English-Korean Bilingual Verbal Fluency Project, studying cognitive flexibility and lexical retrieval in bilingual speakers. I also serve as an Intern for the C.H.A.T. Aphasia Resource […]
Astika Tyagi
About Astika Tyagi is an MS student in Data Science at Boston University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. She works as a Research Assistant at BU’s Center for Brain Recovery, where she develops machine learning pipelines to predict therapy improvement outcomes in post-stroke aphasia patients, advised by Dr. Swathi Kiran with conceptual guidance from […]
Maria Valiente
About I am an undergraduate student at Boston University’s Sargent College with a major in Human Physiology. I plan to attend medical school after my gap year with the goal of pursuing a career as an Emergency Medicine physician. I am interested in learning more about how we can improve treatments for brain disorders, beginning […]
Sharon Wang
About Sharon Wang is a behavioral neuroscience PhD student at the Center for Brain Recovery. She is broadly interested in improving assessment strategies in patients with cognitive-linguistic impairments. One project she has been working on is developing a fully automated pipeline to generate speech features from discourse audio samples. Additionally, she is broadly interested in […]
Isabel Yu
About I am an undergraduate student on the pre-med track at Boston University majoring in Neuroscience with a minor in Human Physiology. After graduation, I plan to pursue either medical school or a PhD program, with a focus on neurology, whether in a clinical or research setting. At the Center for Brain Recovery, I am […]