Jim Shaw

Hi there! I'm Jim, a PhD student in the math department at the University of Toronto. I work in Prof. Yun William Yu's lab.

Research interests

I develop algorithms/tools/theory for biological sequence analysis of large genomics datasets. My applied interests lean towards the study of microbiomes, e.g., microbial divergence computation, metagenome profiling, and strain resolution, but I’m broadly interested in important genomics problems.

Exact techniques used include a mix of engineering, data science, and algorithms; new mathematical theory is developed when appropriate. I particularly like the “full-stack” process of bioinformatics development, going from pure theory + biology to widely-adopted software.