Rate My Professor Anthony Shaw

Anthony Shaw is a Support Analyst (NeSI) in the Information Technology Services Division at the University of Otago, based in Dunedin. He provides researcher support for the National eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), New Zealand's high-performance computing platform. Anthony Shaw delivers training sessions, including hands-on introductions to high performance computing on NeSI supercomputers at Research Bazaar Aotearoa events. He has served as a helper in Software Carpentry workshops at the University of Otago, such as the June 29 to July 1, 2016 workshop and the February 2017 Dunedin ResBaz workshop. In these events, he assisted instructors including Mik Black, Murray Cadzow, Tom Kelly, Tanya Flynn, Dave Eyers, Nick Burns, and others with topics like shell scripting, Git version control, data wrangling, plotting, and programming in Python and R.

Anthony Shaw holds a Postgraduate Diploma of Science in Genetics from the University of Otago. He was an MSc student in the Black Research Group within the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Otago. In 2015, he received a Summer Research Scholarship from the Otago Medical Research Foundation, supervised by Professor Parry Guilford and Associate Professor Mik Black in the Department of Biochemistry, Otago School of Medical Sciences. His project focused on detecting tumour cells in urine as a potential diagnostic for gastric cancer. During his genetics studies, Anthony Shaw used NeSI systems, which directed his interests toward computational methods and statistics. He joined NeSI as an Application Support Analyst in late 2017, based at the University of Auckland. More recently, as a Support Specialist, he collaborated with NIWA scientists on research computing needs.