[1] He is a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
[5][6][7][8] Shaw developed this software after his wife detected "white eye" in pictures of their own son, who was later diagnosed with retinoblastoma.
[9] Shaw is an advocate for parent-based, photographic screening of pediatric eye diseases that present with "white-eye".
[10][11] The software has been credited with initiating multiple early diagnoses of retinoblastoma, Coats’ disease, and myelin retinal nerve fiber layer.
[12][13][14] In 2016 he testified to the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee on the development of the software, known as CRADLE (Computer Assisted Detector of Leukocoria).