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).

My work is guided by a simple goal: modeling biology to advance human health. I focus on:

• Making sense of messy, high-dimensional genetic and clinical data
• Helping AI become fluent in DNA
• Building scalable, standardized AI pipelines to make biomedical research faster, cleaner, and reproducible by default

Along the way, my work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Economist, Forbes, Scientific American, The Transmitter, among others, and 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.