Jason Ritt

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

Faculty Member, Computational Neuroscience Specialization and Graduate Program for Neuroscience

Jason Ritt was an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow from Fall 2011 to Spring 2014. He joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2010. His current research concentrates on how organisms gather and use information from their environment, through active sensing and sensory decision-making. For example, Professor Ritt and his students are studying the ways in which mice explore environments using their whiskers, employing a combination of computational analysis of high-speed video, electrophysiological recordings, and neurocontrol methods implemented by a real-time feedback system built on a digital signal processing architecture. He received his PhD in Neuroscience and a master’s in mathematics from Boston University.