Shawn’s Personal Website

About Me

Hi, I’m Shawn 👋 Welcome to my website!

I am a second year Medical Physics PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) advised by Prof. Arion Chatziiannou. My research focus lies in radiation detection but my interests are quite broad. Lately, I’ve been tinkering with artificial intelligence (AI) and I am hoping to incorporate it into my research in the near future.

Outside of physics, I love to cook, watch movies and shows, and do just about anything with my loving girlfriend. I also used to write a lot in my free time, which is actually the main reason I decided to create this website. I plan to share both science and non-science based blog posts from time to time, so keep an eye out!

Please feel free to email me at shawn.shin@ucla.edu with comments, suggestions, or just to chat and say hi!

Publications

• Shin et al., Advances in the Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detector (LAPPD): 8” × 8” MCP-PMT with Capacitively Coupled Readout, JINST 19 P06040 (2024). (arXiv:2212.03208)

• Jin Kim, M. Wasil Wahi-Anwar, Sangyun Park, Shawn Shin, John M. Hoffman, Matthew S. Brown, Autonomous Computer Vision Development with Agentic AI, arXiv:2506.11140 (2025).