I am a Ph.D. candidate in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences at Boston University (BU) and an incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
At BU, I work with the support and mentorship of Dr. Swathi Kiran in the Center for Brain Recovery. I am co-mentored by Dr. Einat Liebenthal in the Functional Neuroimaging & Bioinformatics Lab at McLean Hospital. At Johns Hopkins, I will be working with Dr. Argye E. Hillis in the SCORE (Stroke Cognitive Outcomes & REcovery) Lab.
I study language dysfunction and recovery after stroke. My dissertation work focuses on the development of naturalistic paradigms for assessment in aphasia, exploring how language, emotional reactivity, and visual attention work together – or do not – after stroke. This approach reveals heterogeneous patterns in how people with aphasia engage with multimodal information, suggesting we need complementary ways of thinking about assessment and recovery. Further, as a bilingual researcher, I work to ensure that our theories of language and recovery reflect the diversity of human language experience.
My line of research addresses these foci through multiple lenses and with a broad toolkit (e.g., behavior, eye-tracking, fMRI; single-case studies, microdata; machine learning, NLP).
Previously, I was a speech-language pathologist specializing in traumatic brain injury and stroke neurorehabilitation at the Northeast Center for Brain Injury and Rehabilitation. I received my M.S. in Communication Disorders from SUNY New Paltz and my B.A. in Speech and Hearing Science from the University at Buffalo.
When I am not working, I am spending time with my family, shooting hoops, and reading.
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