14. Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA Summer Seed Research Grant (May 1, 2023- August 31, 2023): Grant/award/project title: “Utilization of Machine Learning Techniques for Aiding Detection of Ischemic Stroke Lesion, Infarct Volumes, and Small-artery Occlusions”: $10,000 (Direct costs, Effort=100%, Pilot funding). Poster Link, [*2024:9], [**2024:36], Github, Springer Intelligent Sustainable Systems. Paper Springer, Presentation video, PPT.

Project: https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/04/Seed-Report-2023-d26fc72513e269e3.docx

15. National Science Foundation South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), RII Track-1 Award, GAIN CRP Subaward, Clemson University https://cecas.clemson.edu/biophotonics/ (Grants for Applications in Industry and Networking Collaborative Research Program, Grant/award/project title: “AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT)”): AI-Enabled Construction of Aligned Collagen Using Two-Photon Techniques (May 1, 2024- August 31, 2025): Total Award (Direct and indirect costs) $70,000.00 [**43, 50], Poster, Funding supports Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA students **Caliese J. Beckford+π(Thesis Advisor)† and **Mr. Sabb, Dinari+π(Thesis Advisor).  Role: Co-PI, NSF Identifier: 000879633, Award Number: 2242812, Award/Fund Agency Code: 4900, Program Element/Reference Code’s (PEC/Congressional District): 193Y00, 075Z/7715/8037/9150/SMET/03, Assistance Listing Number: 47.083, (Direct costs, Effort=100%, 1.50 person per month release).

16. Title III and Special Initiative Office SEED Funding, Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA: Grant/award/project title: “Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)” (May 1, 2024- August 31, 2024): Total Award (Direct and indirect costs) $8,840.00 Github, Students involved **Lierra Rivera+π (Thesis Advisor) Presently doctoral student at Clemson University, Bioengineering Program and ***Kalyn Wesby+π, Presentation Video PPT, (Thesis Advisor). Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%), **Germari Cull+π, **Mr. Adrian Lockwood+π† (National Institute of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) mentor, Presently Internship atStudent Mentoring and Research Training program (SMaRT) Intern, University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, United States. https://www.ornl.gov/), Presentation Video PPT, and ***Kalyn Wesby+π. Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%). GitHub,Report

17. The Department of Defense (DoD), Army Materiel Command (AMC),  Grant/award/project title: “HBCU/MI Equipment/Instrumentation grant award” (May 1, 2024- August 31, 2025), Project officer: William A Creech, grant Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. Total Award (Direct and indirect costs), Role: PI, Effort=100%, 1.35 person per month release. $410,596. Funding award number (FOA): W911NF23S0014, Grant Program (CFDA) 12.630: Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering: Intel Xeon NVIDIA GPU Server for Enhancing Computational Capabilities at Claflin University.

[Role-Investigator: 1,2,3,4,5,7,8; Co-PI/PI: 6,9,10,11,12,13,14, 15, 16, 17].

Travel Awards (Selected)*:

1. Georgia State University, Biology Graduate Student Association (BGSA), Atlanta, USA, September 1, 2013. Github, [*2019: 13], [**12]. 

2. Western Kentucky University, Department of Biology, Bowling Green, USA, November 21, 2011. Github, [*2011: 4], [**15]. 

3. New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) conference, November 21, 2018: https://necsi.edu/

4. Institute for Data Engineering and Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, November 21, 2019: http://dsf.ideas.gatech.edu/events/mlse

5. Honored Listee, Marquis Who’s Who: https://marquiswhoswho.com/

6. Cascadia R Conf November 21, 2021 Workshop Scholarship.

7. Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA All of Us Evenings with Genetics (AoUEwG), Research Program’s Underrepresented Biomedical Faculty Summit, (UBRFS).

8. Biology Graduate Student Association (BGSA), Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference, November 21, 2019. Github, [*2019: 8], [**8]. 

9. Guest Lecturer, Issued by Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune. India. December 1, 2018. University: http://bvuniversity.edu.in/
Topic: Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy logic and its applications in Homeopathic Repertories.  PPT: https://github.com/spawar2/Shrodinger-Equation/blob/main/Presentation_Tejas_Webinar.pptx. Git: https://github.com/spawar2/Shrodinger-Equation

10. Guest Lecturer, Managingresearch effectively, May 21, 2023 online summer school by Narayanan A, Lahiri C & Pawar S, Center for Research, Innovation & Translation, Department of Biotechnology, Atmiya University, Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission (GSBTM) and Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat, Rajkot, India: https://atmiyauni.ac.in/. Topic: https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_c9592316356c4638915e40a5a42c6bdf.pdf https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/08/Atmiya-University.pdf

11. Keynote Speaker, 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems, Chongqing, China (ICAIIS May 1, 2021). Artificial intelligence and cancer biomarker discovery, by Shrikant Pawar, Keynote speaker, http://icaiis.org/Keynote-Speekers.html. Topic: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3469213.3469214 Github, [*2021: 13], [**3].

12. Keynote Speaker, 4th International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Simulation, Guangzhou, China, May 1, 2021. Machine learning application in genomics, by Shrikant Pawar, Keynote speaker and general chair, http://www.4th-amms.org/com.html

13. AWS Machine Learning University, Machine Learning Intensive Bootcamp (Introduction to Machine Learning Part 2), Introduction to Machine Learning. https://the-cs.org/train-aws-pd AmazonWebServices (AWS), Machine Learning Professional Development Intensive Bootcamp Part I for Teachers https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/7/3679/files/2024/01/Summer-2023-a4bc36a96ad5b076-300×212.jpeg https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/7/3679/files/2023/12/Machine-Learning-Intensive-300×232.png https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/03/Pawar-March-2024-AWS-Bootcamp-Part-I-Certificate-1c9070db6c2e07ab.pdf 2023-2024, The Coding School: Data Visualization, Machine Learning Models, Ethics Responsible Artificial Intelligence. https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/07/pawar-July-2024-AWS-Machine-Learning-Bootcamp-Part-I-Certificate.pdf https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/08/Pawar-AWS-ML-Bootcamp-Part-II-Certificate.pdf https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/10/September-October-11-2024-Certificate-of-Completion-AWS-Machine-Learning-Bootcamp-Part-I-Certificate.pdf https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2025/03/Machine-Learning-for-College-Educators-Parts-1-2-Continuing-Education-Units-CEUs.pdf

14. Artificial Intelligence in Genomics, Bridging Molecular Diagnostics from Bench to Computer. June 1, 2024 National Hands-on Advanced Genomics Workshop, Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission (GSBTM) and Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat, Atmiya University, Rajkot, India. PPT,Github,Presentation video,Certificate,https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/08/4-300×300.jpeg https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/08/6-225×300.jpeg https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/08/7-e1722602337825-225×300.jpeg

15. US Sciencegateways, SGX3‘s HackHPC, “Adapting High-Performance Computing (HPC) tools in Data Science courses at Claflin University”, October 7-11, 2024, Bozeman, Montana, USA.^^ GitHub, Poster

16. Genomic Data Science Community Network (GDSCN)GDSCN Symposium 9 Agenda Puerto Rico, October 16, 2024, University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla (UPRA), USA with Dr. Chowdhury, Department of Biology, Claflin University, South Carolina, United States of America (USA). Profile. 

[*Published articles from publications; **Presentations from conferences; Undergraduate/Graduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA.]. https://www.claflin-computation.com/publications †: The Alice Carson Tisdale Honors College/Center at Claflin University. π: Classes taught: CSCI/HNTH391/392. Award (Start date- End date). **Bioinformatics Major, Honors Computer Science Engineering, Mathematics, Management Information Science (MIS), Cyber Security, Biotechnology.