Swathi Kiran

Swathi Kiran is a Professor at Boston University specializing in Language Processing and Recovery. Her career focuses on bilingual aphasia, aphasia rehabilitation, and functional neuroimaging, with a particular emphasis on language recovery mechanisms and impairments in naming, reading, and writing.

• Ph.D. in Speech Language Pathology, Northwestern University (2001)
• M.A. in Speech Language Pathology, Northwestern University (1998)
• B.Sc. in Speech Pathology/Audiology, All India Institute of Speech & Hearing (1995)

Her research integrates neuroimaging, machine learning, and language therapy to address poststroke aphasia rehabilitation. Key themes include cross-language treatment effects, neuroplasticity, and signal quality optimization in fNIRS. She has pioneered the use of digital therapeutics like Constant Therapy and advanced lesion analysis techniques for predicting recovery trajectories.

Recent work demonstrates her leadership in multimodal data fusion for aphasia severity prediction, computational modeling of treatment response, and cross-cultural assessment of language impairments. Her studies span Mandarin-English bilinguals, trilingual recovery patterns, and age-related cortical activity differences.