Summary of Research
I am a PhD student studying computational biology at UC Berkeley, working with Dr. John Huelsenbeck. My research focuses on developing computational tools to stochastically model changes in morphology with Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo.
Publications
Raskin, Levi Y.; Seselj, Maja; and Bitarello, Barbara D. (2024). Assessing phylogenetic information content and redundancy in hominin craniodental traits. bioRxiv.
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.31.616875
Raskin, Levi Y.; Bitarello, Barbara D.; O'Hara, Mackie C.; and Seselj, Maja (2025). Hidden state prediction suggests perikymata are unlikely to differentiate Middle Pleistocene hominins [Podium presentation]. American association of Biological Anthropologists.
Raskin, Levi Y.; Seselj, Maja; and Bitarello, Barbara D. (2024). The effect of trait redundancy on parsimony-inferred tree topologies from a hominin character matrix [Podium presentation]. Paleoanthropology Society.
Raskin, Levi Y.; O'Hara, Mackie C.; Erskine, Amy I.; and Seselj, Maja. (2024). Moving great ape osteobiographies forward: digitally linking macro and micro data and media at the individual level [Podium presentation]. American Association of Biological Anthropologists.
Reeves, Jonathan S.; Raskin, Levi Y.; Douglass, Matthew J.; and Braun, David R. (2023). Establishing baselines for stone tool variation across the Early Pleistocene: A least effort approach [Podium presentation]. Society for American Archaeology.
Raskin, Levi Y.; Reeves, Jonathan S.; Douglass, Matthew J.; and Braun, David R. (2023). Least-effort knapping as a baseline to study social transmission in the Early Stone Age [Poster]. Society for American Archaeology.
Awards
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
American Association of Biological Anthropologist's Mildred Trotter Prize for outstanding presentation on bones or teeth
Graduated cum laude from Haverford College
Departmental honors in Biology from Bryn Mawr College
Departmental honors in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College
Louis Green Fund and the Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center Conference Fund (Fall 2023)
Bryn Mawr College Award for Conference Travel (Fall 2023)
Bryn Mawr College Summer Science Research Program Stipend (Summer 2023)
Barry Goldwater Scholarship (Spring 2023)
Louis Green Fund (Fall 2022)
Pauline Adams Fund for Excellence in Anthropology (Spring 2022)
Deborah Lafer-Scher International Internship (Spring 2022)
Hurford Center Breaking the Rules Fellowship (Spring 2022)
Frederica de Laguna Fund (Spring 2022)