Hi!

My name is Victoria Ritvo, I’m a cognitive neuroscientist and data scientist.

I am currently a fellow at Data Science for Social Good at Carnegie Mellon University, where I’m working with Douglas County and Johnson County, Kansas to reduce behavioral health crises (e.g. death by suicide and overdose) through predictive modeling and machine learning.

I received my PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from Princeton University in May 2022, where I worked in the Princeton Computational Memory Lab with Ken Norman, and in the Turk-Browne Lab with Nick Turk-Browne. My dissertation work looked at the cognitive and neural mechanisms of learning and memory. I studied this through computational modeling, where I built neural networks to simulate learning in the brain, as well as fMRI and behavioral experiments in humans. During my time at Princeton, I also worked on a longitudinal study on the mental health of graduate students, exploring the factors predicting worse mental health outcomes.

Before that, I received my bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Philosophy from Columbia University, where I worked in the Adaptive Behavior Lab with Peter Balsam, and the Cognitive Neuroimaging Lab with Edward Smith.