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Levi Raskin

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Program Year:
2
University:
University of California, Berkeley
Field of Study:
Computational Biology
Advisor:
John Huelsenbeck
Degree(s):
B.A. Biology, and B.A. Anthropology, Haverford College, 2024
Personal URL:
leviraskin.com

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)