Jamshaid Shahir is a doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Jamshaid has held multiple leadership positions, including serving as an elected senator in the Graduate and Professional Student Government and chairing the Travel Awards committee. As a technical writer for Towards Data Science, Jamshaid publishes articles on single-cell genomics and machine learning, reaching a broad audience. Additionally, Jamshaid has contributed to student mentorship programs, fostering community among peers, and has experience in teaching data science courses. Prior research experience includes modeling biochemical systems as a research assistant at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and conducting an internship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Jamshaid holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.