Jim Shaw

Hi there! I am an incoming Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), starting July 2027 in the Department of Computer Science.

I develop algorithms/software/theory for biological sequence analysis and apply these methods to investigate important problems in microbial and microbiome genomics. Please see my lab website for updated information on my research.

Currently, I am an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. I work with Heng Li. You can reach me at jshaw(at)ds.dfci.harvard.edu.

I obtained my PhD in Math at the University of Toronto, where I was advised by Yun William Yu. Previously, I studied Engineering Physics + Mathematics at the University of British Columbia.