Andrew Shaw
Research Assistant at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Shaw is a research-focused software engineer and current MS student in Computer Science at the University of Washington with a decade of practical experience building data-driven systems. He blends deep learning teaching and ethics—having lectured on AI philosophy—with hands-on engineering from optimizing AWS EBS snapshot workflows to building unified emergency management mapping platforms. His work spans AI alignment and evaluation (performing Direct Preference Optimization and building toxicity/faithfulness pipelines), legal-tech automation, and human-rights data science where he trained a classifier achieving 94% accuracy on ICE arrest narratives. Comfortable across Python, Java, C++, R, and full-stack web stacks, he repeatedly takes projects from user research through deployment and evaluation. Based in Seattle, he pairs technical rigor with policy-minded thinking, often translating complex research into accessible tools and briefings for nontechnical stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MS - Computer Science, MS - Computer Science at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma · IB Diploma, High School Diploma · IB Diploma at Interlake Senior High School
Chinese, Spanish, English
Github Skills (47)
spatial8
grammar8
geographic8
geospatial7
geopandas7
geography7
python-requests7
python7
cpython6
data-analysis5
gis5
pandas5
adjustment5
machine-learning-models4
machine-learning4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eScienceUW-WinterSchool-2020/PythonSession
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
eScienceUW-WinterSchool-2020/RSession
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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