Paul Shaw
Research Leader - Information Systems
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPaul Shaw is a Research Leader in Information Systems who builds open-source digital infrastructure that connects plant science and software engineering to tackle genetics, breeding, and food security challenges. With over two decades in bioinformatics and eight years leading a multidisciplinary team at The James Hutton Institute, he directs development of widely used tools like Germinate, Helium and GridScore that span muddy-field data capture to pedigree visualization. He combines hands-on coding (Perl, Java, increasingly Go) with strategic leadership, supervising Research Software Engineers, scientists and PhD students and steering AI-driven barley research projects. Based in Scotland, he excels at translating complex biological data into practical, globally adopted solutions and is notable for sustaining long-term collaborative platforms used by international funders and researchers.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Bioinformatics, Master of Science (MSc) Bioinformatics at Abertay UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc) Biology/Biological Sciences General, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Biology/Biological Sciences General at University of DundeeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Edinburgh Napier University
EnglishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cardinalb/helium-docs
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 11 months
best-crop/.github
Feb 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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