[1] She also jointly holds the positions of senior scientist with the Learning Research and Development Center and faculty with the Intelligent Systems department.
[2][3] Litman is noted for her work in the areas of artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language processing, and user modeling.
[4] Litman did her undergraduate studies at the College of William and Mary and her master's and PhD degrees at the University of Rochester.
Litman has served as chair, organizer, and a senior member of numerous committees of peer-reviewed scientific journals.
[6] She has also co-authored numerous award-winning papers[11] and was awarded senior member status by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2011, an award designed to honor those who have "achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence.