Swathi Kiran is the James and Cecelia Ying Professor of Neurorehabilitation in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Associate Dean for Research at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and the Director for Strategic Planning Implementation at Boston University.  Her research interests focus around lexical semantic treatment for individuals with aphasia, bilingual aphasia and neuroimaging of brain plasticity following a stroke. She has over 130 peer-reviewed papers in these fields.  She is a fellow of the American Speech Language and Hearing Association and serves on various journal editorial boards and grant review panels including at National Institutes of Health. She is the co-founder and scientific advisor for Constant Therapy Health, a software platform for rehabilitation tools after brain injury.