Aviya Litman

Hi, I’m Aviya. I’m a PhD candidate in Computational Biology at Princeton, advised by Olga Troyanskaya and affiliated with the Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation).

I’m driven by a simple question: how can we make AI actually useful for human health? This means my research focuses on:

• Teaching AI to read and interpret biology across the central dogma
• Making sense of messy, multidimensional biological and clinical heterogeneity
• Building scalable, standardized pipelines to make biomedical research faster, cleaner, and reproducible by default

Along the way, my work has been featured in Scientific American, Forbes, The Transmitter, among others, and even discussed on podcasts.

Before Princeton, I studied math at Columbia, and I worked with Tal Korem, Itsik Pe’er, and Moran Yassour.

Outside the lab, you’ll find me daydreaming about species conservation, capybaras (even before they went viral), and the time I fostered aquatic snails named Shrimpy, Barbara, and Night 🐌. Also: #FreeEdTheZebra.