Our Team

Principal Investigator

jiyeon

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

Catherine Pham, PhD

Research Interests: Language production in typical speakers, language learners, and clinical populations, syntactic priming, network science, and collaborative language use.

Email: ctpham@purdue.edu
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae

Research Associate / Speech-Language Pathologist

Emily Bauman, M.S., CCC-SLP

Clinical and 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
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

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

Jieun Kim

Pursuing: B.A. in Psycholinguistics at Mount Holyoke 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