Current Teaching
I'm running the summer teaching portion of Data Science for the Public Good.Recent Highlights
- An article about cat training, featuring mentions of our kitties Sterling and Bojangles: Building the Bond Between Cats and People
- Our Bioinformatics Users' Group (BUG) got some coverage in the The Scientist: Learning Bioinformatics
- An old project published after much work: Newsvendor problems with demand shocks and unknown demand distributions
- Rstackdeque published in the R journal: Implementing Persistent O(1) Stacks and Queues in R
- Collaborative project recently published: Two Theobroma cacao genotypes with contrasting pathogen tolerance show aberrant transcriptional and ROS responses after salicylic acid treatment
Older items here.
About Me
CV.
I am currently an Assistant Professor (Senior Research) in the Dept. of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology and Data Engineer for the TISLab at Oregon State University.
Most recently I was a Senior Faculty Research Assistant at the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing
at Oregon State University.
I earned my Ph.D. in May of 2012 from the
University
of Notre Dame, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and my Bachelors in Computer Science from Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan.
Other things I find interesting include art (wood, glass, and digital media). I have a fondness for mathematical logic, certain areas of philosophy, hiking, martial arts, electronics, nerf blasters, and programming. Feel free to visit my actual homepage for more.
On the left is me taking a break from catching butterflies several years ago. As you can see, I like photography too. On the right is a more recent picture.
Research Interests
My bioinformatics research has focused on haplotype assembly from short read fragments and de-novo transcriptome assembly assessment. I also study the unique effects of climate change on individual insect populations.
Previously, I've worked on Online Algorithms and theory, in particular applying them to problems in finance and inventory management such as the newsvendor problem.
Contact Info
- CGRB Office: ALS 3021, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
- Email: shawn.oneil-@-cgrb-.-oregonstate-.-edu (remove dashes)