Frank Ritter is a professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, professor in the Department of Psychology, and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University. Before coming to Penn State, he was a lecturer (approximately equivalent to US assistant professor) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nottingham, and a visiting distinguished professor in the Psychology Department at Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany).
He has published more than 100 articles and conference papers, and edited several books in the area of cognitive modeling, cognitive architectures, human-computer interaction, and learning. He coedited the proceedings of a conference on cognitive modeling and a special issue of the International Journal of Human Computer Studies on cognitive models as users. He is on the editorial board of Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society and Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly. He is a series editor for The Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures.
Ritter received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a master's degree in Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Artificial Intelligence and Psychology from the Carnegie-Mellon University. Ritter has received study fellowships from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the European Science Foundation's program on Learning in Humans and Machines.