Our Team
Principal Investigator
Jiyeon Lee is an Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the director of the Aphasia Research Lab at Purdue University. She received her PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University with clinical training in Speech-Language Pathology. She is a certified speech-language pathologist and teaches courses on aphasia, age-related changes in communication, and speech-language disorders in healthcare settings.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Catherine Pham, PhD
Research Interests: Language production in typical speakers, language learners, and clinical populations, synctactic priming, network science and collaborative language use.
Research Associate / Speech-Language Pathologist
Emily Bauman, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical & Research Interests: adult neurogenic disorders including aphasia and traumatic brain injury.
Email: ebauman@purdue.edu
Lab Manager
Katelin Rainey, B.S.
Received B.S. in Psychology
Research interests: "Initiatives that aim to support people with aphasia. Additionally, I hope to connect the current knowledge I have of aphasia with the linguistic perspective of the lab."
Email: raineykm@purdue.edu
PhD Students
Peng Zhang, M.A.
Received M.A. in Linguistics
Pursuing: PhD in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Research Interests: sentence processing, language-specific treatment for aphasia, assessment of language production in aphasia, bilingual aphasia
Email: zhan5041@purdue.edu
Sein "Sally" Min
Received M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology at Biola University, May 2024.
Pursuing: PhD in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
"I joined the Purdue Aphasia Lab to better my knowledge of neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying language and contribute to the development of the aphasia literature."
Email: min116@purdue.edu
Undergraduate Students
Parker Davis
Pursuing: B.S. in Biology
"I joined the Aphasia Lab to be a part of this amazing research community as well as to learn about and contribute to the promising future of aphasia therapy."
Email: davi1555@purdue.edu
Rachel Ellis
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences
"I joined the aphasia Lab for the amazing experience to work in a lab setting and expand my knowledge of aphasia."
Email: ellis193@purdue.edu
Megan Bogemann
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences
"I joined the Aphasia Lab because I am interested in learning more about aphasia and gaining lab experience."
Email: mbogeman@purdue.edu
Gianna Imbarrato
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences and B.A. in Sociology
"I joined the Aphasia Lab to contribute to crucial research for an important cause, as well as to gain familiarity with a research setting."
Email: gimbarra@purdue.edu
McKenna Boersma
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences
"I joined the Aphasia Lab because after learning about aphasia, I knew that I wanted to contribute to amazing research that will aid in the future of aphasia therapy."
Email: mboersm@purdue.edu
Divya Manvikar
Pursuing: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
"I joined the Aphasia Lab to contribute to the outstanding aphasia research community and to gain more practical experience with aphasia after studying about it in my cognitive psychology course."
Email: dmanvik@purdue.edu
Grace Carlson
Pursuing: B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences
"I joined the Aphasia Lab to contribute to research on language disorders and to gain hands-on experience in understanding the complexities of aphasia."
Email: carls175@purdue.edu
Ava Rose
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech Language & Hearing Sciences
"I joined the Aphasia Lab to further develop my research and networking skills. Joining the lab will also allow me the opportunity to dive deeper into understanding language pertaining to people with Aphasia"
Email: rose206@purdue.edu
Brooklyn Stout
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech Language & Hearing Sciences
"I joined the Aphasia Lab to enhance my knowledge of such an important language disorder. This lab also allows me to advance my experience in lab settings."
Email: stout72@purdue.edu
Leah Cave
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech Language & Hearing Sciences
“I joined the Aphasia Lab because I want to help push forward progress in finding ways to help people reach their recovery goals, and understand more about new treatment angles being designed real-time.”
Email: cavel@purdue.edu
Interested in joining our lab?
If you are an undergraduate student interested in joining the Purdue Aphasia Lab, please fill out this form.
If you are a graduate or prospective doctoral student, please contact Dr. Lee directly at lee1704@purdue.edu.
Undergraduate and Masters Student Researchers
- Kelsey Olsen
- Jessica Dick
- Paayal Surani
- Alexander Lertola
- Katie O’Connor
- Macaela Parker
- Courtney Case
- Alayna Ging
- Jessica Fang
- Jenna Scheumann
- Linnea Rohrsen
- Hannah Haworth
- Emily Hosokawa
- Jennifer Fredrick
- Megan Pentecost
- Joslyn Burke
- Krista Riegsecker
- Daphne Peter
- Megan Parke
- Leyna Schroeder
- Elly Farr
- Mikahla Combs
- Briana Cox
- Renée Kohlmeier
- Emily Clark
- Austin Keen
- Jyotsna Krishnakumar
- Lily Haven
- Michael Linge
- Rylee Manning
- Nadia Seye
- Lauren Isaacson
- Kea Char
- Maddie Bailey
- Elle Plucinsky
- Priya Halder
- Hannah Brownd