Swathi Kiran, PhD, CCC-SLP

Swathi Kiran is the Founding Director of the Center for Brain Recovery (CBR), Director of the Aphasia Research Laboratory, and James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor of the Neurorehabilitation Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences at Boston University. Dr. Kiran is also the Co-founder and Scientific Director of Constant Therapy Heath, an organization utilizing machine learning methods to develop individualized recovery plans for individuals with traumatic brain injury, aphasia, dementia, or other neurological conditions.

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, Neuroimaging in the Everyday World (NEW), and more.

Scholarly, Research, and/or Practice Interests

• Bilingual aphasia
• Aphasia rehabilitation
• Functional neuroimaging
• Language recovery
• Impairments in naming, reading, writing

Kiran is the co-founder of Constant Therapy Health.

Publications

Lists of published works: Google Scholar 

Lists of published works: ORCID