Victoria is a Master's student and teaching assistant in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She was born and raised in West Lafayette, IN, where she received both a B.S. in BME and a B.A. in Linguistics at Purdue in May 2023. Victoria is interested in researching the neural correlates of language by means of neuroimaging techniques. Her current research - a collaboration with Dr. Maureen Shader in the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences department - focuses on the use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy to study cognitive load and its relation to speech perception. When not in the lab or the classroom, Victoria enjoys getting coffee with friends and cheering on Purdue basketball.