Hello,

My name is James Shackleford and this is my website... kinda. I largely dismantled everything, as you can see. This is easier to maintain.

Currently, I am a Ph.D candidate at Drexel University where I work on GPU accelerated medical image processing with Dr. Nagarajan Kandasamy. My research manifests itself as contributions to the plastimatch project, which is a deformable image registration toolkit for medical images.

Plastimatch was started by Dr. Greg Sharp at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Consequently, despite being located in Philadelphia, the vast majority of my work is performed in collaboration with Harvard Medical in Boston.

I enjoy developing web applications as a hobby in my spare time. This is something I have been fiddling with since I was in my early teens. Most of my web apps have been designed for internal use only and were, therefore, never open to general web traffic. Site Knocker is a recent creation of mine, which is an application designed for monitoring the status of the Internet. As usual, the entire site was developed using only a text editor. It's mostly PHP with a little bit of SQL and AJAX thrown in for good measure.