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 better analyze paleontological datasets.
Annual Program Review Abstracts
Publications
Published articles
Chatar, Narimane; Vankelst, Melvin; Pérez Ramos, Alejandro, Pollock, Tahlia; Tamagnini, Davide; Michaud, Margo; Raskin, Levi Y.; Tseng, Z. Jack (2026). Novel experimental insights into the functional evolution of mammalian carnassials. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aee3453
Raskin, Levi Y.; Bitarello, Barbara D.; Seselj, Maja; Stroustrup, Sofia; Li, Jacky; and Huelsenbeck, John
(2026). Principal Components Analysis fails to recover phylogenetic structure in hominins. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.70306
Preprints
Severinsen, Michael Lind; Li, Jacky Kaiyuan; Lim, Wonseop; Raskin, Levi Y.; Yang, Gefan; Sommer,
Stefan; Hipsley, Christy Anna; and Nielsen, Rasmus (2026). DICAROS: Diffeomorphic Ancestral Shape Reconstruction on Phylogenies.
Available on bioRxiv as a preprint:
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.08.21.746152
Raskin, Levi Y.; Seselj, Maja; Huelsenbeck, John; Lim, Wonseop; Li, Jacky; O Hara, Mackie C.; and
Bitarello, Barbara D. (2026). A hierarchical Bayesian framework accommodates intraspecific and interspecific variation in multivariate traits.
Currently available on bioRxiv as a preprint:
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.28.728593
Jacky Kaiyuan Li; Wonseop Lim; Finn Margaret Callahan; Raskin, Levi Y.; Maya Lemmon-Kishi;
Rasmus Nielsen (2026). STEM-LM: Spatio-Temporal Ecological Modeling via Masked
Language Model for Joint Species Distribution Modeling.
Currently available on bioRxiv as a preprint:
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.13.724718
Raskin, Levi Y.; Seselj, Maja; and Bitarello, Barbara D. (2024). Assessing phylogenetic information
content and redundancy in hominin craniodental traits.
Currently available on bioRxiv as a preprint:
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.31.616875
Awards
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship honorable mention
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
Barry Goldwater Scholarship (Spring 2023)