Swathi Kiran

James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor of Neurorehabilitation, BU College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College

Research Interests

Swathi Kiran is the Founding Director of the Center for Brain Recovery (CBR) and the Director of the Aphasia Research Laboratory. Dr. Kiran brings an interdisciplinary approach to her research at the CBR. Her academic research focuses on neuroscience, brain plasticity, language recovery, and bilingualism, as she also oversees several projects by her graduate and undergraduate students at both CDS and CBR. These projects include Predicting Rehabilitation Outcomes in Bilingual Aphasia using Computational Modeling, Mapping Aphasia Recovery in the Brain, and Neuroimaging in the Everyday World (NEW).

Dr. Kiran is also co-founder and Scientific Director of Constant Therapy Inc, an organization utilizing machine learning methods to develop individualized recovery plans for individuals with traumatic brain injury, aphasia, dementia, or other neurological conditions.

Lab Webpage: Center for Brain Recovery