Hugh Shanahan
Professor Of Open Science at Royal Holloway, University of London
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHugh Shanahan is a Professor of Open Science at Royal Holloway, University of London, with a multidisciplinary career bridging theoretical physics, computational biology, and research data science. Trained in Lattice QCD (PhD, Edinburgh) and early supercomputing work, he pivoted to bioinformatics in 1999 and has since developed novel quality-control methods for RNA‑seq and functional profiling approaches for metagenomics. He leads initiatives to make research interoperable and FAIR, co-chairing CODATA-RDA training for researchers from roughly 40 countries and contributing to the FAIRsFAIR and WDS communities. As Director of Student Experience he has helped grow his department’s student body nearly tenfold and shaped doctoral training partnerships with major UK institutions. His work spans hands-on algorithm development, cloud and big-data platforms (Hadoop/Spark) for genomics, and institution-level policy and training to embed open, reproducible practices. Unusually for an academic of his generation, he combines deep theoretical physics origins with pragmatic data-science engineering focused on accessibility for researchers in low- and middle-income countries.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, Ph.D., Theoretical Physics at The University of EdinburghSt. Brendan's College, KilarneyB.sc., M.Sc., Physics, B.sc., M.Sc., Physics at University College Cork
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Github Skills (34)
rda10
codata10
open-data9
science9
jupyter-book8
binder8
data-science7
svd7
creative-commons6
jupyter-notebook6
webapp6
delta6
jupyterlab-extension6
ipython6
jupyterlab6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hughshanahan/GOFind
Jul 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
hughshanahan/CS2900-Lab-5
Mar 2019 - Mar 2023
Jupyter notebook for Lab 5
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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