Our Team
Principal Investigator
Jiyeon Lee is an Associate Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and the director of the Aphasia Recovery 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.
Email: lee1704@purdue.edu
Office Number: (765) 494-3810
Purdue Faculty Website
Postdoctoral Fellow
Catherine Pham, PhD
Research Interests: Language production in typical speakers, language learners, and clinical populations, syntactic priming, network science, and collaborative language use.
Research Associate / Speech-Language Pathologist
Emily Bauman, M.S., CCC-SLP
Clinical and Research Interests: adult neurogenic disorders including aphasia and traumatic brain injury.
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, M.S.
Received M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology
Pursuing: PhD in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Research interests: Bilingual aphasia, acquired reading impairment, syntactic & morphological recovery, implicit language processing.
Email: min116@purdue.edu
Alton Chao, B.S.
Received B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering
Pursuing: PhD in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Research interests: Large Language Models (LLMs) in aphasia research & recovery, language changes across the lifespan
Email: chao97@purdue.edu
Graduate Students
Ivan Vanek, B.S., B.A.
Received B.S. in Neuroscience and BAs in French Language and Linguistics
Pursuing: MS in Speech Language Pathology
Research interests: Syntax and neurogenic language disorders
Email: ivanek@purdue.edu
Zhien Zhang, B.S., B.A.
Received: B.S. in Cognitive Science & B.A. in Linguistics
Pursuing: MA in Speech Language Pathology at San Diego State University
Research interests: Bilingual aphasia and language representation in the brain.
Email: zhan6034@purdue.edu
Undergraduate Students
Rachel Ellis
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University
Megan Bogemann
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University
Divya Manvikar
Pursuing: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University
Ava Rose
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech Language & Hearing Sciences at Purdue University
Brooklyn Stout
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech Language & Hearing Sciences at Purdue University
Leah Cave
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech Language & Hearing Sciences at Purdue University
Allison Weber
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences and Psychology at Purdue University
Abby Bolton
Pursuing: B.S. Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University
Lourdes Segura
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Spanish at Purdue University
Cali Petersen
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University
Marissa Killion
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University
Rachel Turner
Pursuing: B.S. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University
Grace Ko
Pursuing: B.A. in Communication Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
Iris Lee
Pursuing: B.A. In Applied Psychology & Human Development and Elementary Education at Boston College
Lab Alumni
Post-Doctorate Fellows
Willem van Boxtel, Ph.D. (2022-2024), Currently Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University
Joshua Weirick, Ph.D. (2021-2023), Currently Sr. Editor at Digitive
Graduate Students
Grace Man, PhD, CCC-SLP
Austin Keen, MS
Hannah Brownd, MS
Emily Hosokawa, MS, CCC-SLP
Jennifer Fredrick, MS, CCC-SLP
Jessica Dick, MS, CCC-SLP
Briana Cox, MS, CCC-SLP
Undergraduate Students and Research Assistants
Kelsey Olsen
Paayal Surani
Alexander Lertola
Katie O’Connor
Macaela Parker
Courtney Case
Alayna Ging
Jessica Fang
Jenna Scheumann
Linnea Rohrsen
Hannah Haworth
Megan Pentecost
Joslyn Burke
Krista Riegsecker
Daphne Peter
Megan Parke
Leyna Schroeder
Elly Farr
Mikahla Combs
Renée Kohlmeier
Emily Clark
Lily Haven
Michael Linge
Rylee Manning
Nadia Seye
Lauren Isaacson
Kea Char
Maddie Bailey
Elle Plucinsky
Priya Halder
Gianna Imbarrato
Parker Davis
McKenna Boersma
Grace Carlson
Katelin Rainey
Jieun Kim