Shawn O'neil
Assistant Professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolShawn O'neil is an Assistant Professor and computational scientist specializing in methods development for health data analysis, blending statistics, machine learning, and AI to tackle high-dimensional, multi-modal biomedical problems. With 11 years of experience across academia — including faculty roles at UNC Chapel Hill, University of Colorado Anschutz, and Oregon State — he focuses on model interpretability, scalability, and translating real-world health data into actionable discovery. He is also a dedicated educator who builds courses, workshops, tools, and textbooks that teach practical programming and data analysis skills to researchers and professionals. Known for bridging theory with applied data engineering in biomedical informatics, he brings a rare combination of rigorous PhD training and hands-on curriculum development that accelerates both research and workforce readiness.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science and Engineering at University of Notre Dame
English
Github Skills (104)
graphic10
r9
quarto9
linux9
rlang9
describe9
python9
shacl9
owl9
datatypes9
data-visualisation9
monarchinitiative9
r-package9
chatgpt-plugin9
knowledge-graph8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
monarch-initiative/phenomics-assistant
Aug 2023 - Jul 2025
LLM retrieval augmented generation agent for the Monarch Knowledge graph.
Contributions:5 releases, 8 PRs, 86 pushes in 1 year 10 months
knowledge-graphllmretrieval-augmented-generationlarge-language-modelsmonarchinitiative
oneilsh/discovery_index
Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:131 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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