Career
He is best known for developing free software for smartphones that can detect eye cancer (retinoblastoma) in children by searching the child"s picture for "white eye" (leukocoria). Shaw is an advocate for parent-based, photographic screening of pediatric eye diseases that present with "white-eye". Shaw grew up in Spokane, Washington and received his Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry at the University of California, Los Los Angeles
He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University.
