1. Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) Hardware Grant (2018), Georgia State University, USA: https://cetl.gsu.edu/programs-grants-awards/grant-funded-projects/ Poster Link [*2021:4]
2. Create-X, Startup Launch Grant (2019), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA: “Utilization of convolutional neural networks for security against password cracking”: https://create-x.gatech.edu/about
3. Yale University, Rothberg Fund (2020), USA: “CHEST-AI: AI tool for detection of lung diseases from chest X- ray data”: https://medium.com/tsai-city/kickstarting-healthcare-innovation-with-the-rothberg-catalyzer-prototype-fund-6f5a1f37c5c2 Poster Link Product
Github [*2023:1, 4, 9; 2021: 17, 23][**21, 23, 29, 30]
4. Entrepreneurship Foundation Fund (2020), USA: “CHEST-AI: AI tool for detection of lung diseases from chest X- ray data”: https://www.entrepreneurshipfoundation.org/
[*2023:1, 4, 9; 2021: 17, 23][**21, 23, 29, 30] Github Product
5. Culinda Technologies (2020), Texas, USA (https://www.culinda.io/): Machine learning solutions for medical devices that provide deep insight into IoT and IoMT applications
[*2023:1, 4, 9; 2021: 17, 23][**21, 23, 29, 30] Github Product
6. Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub Azure Credits (2022) $25,000 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups): “CHEST-AI: AI tool for detection of lung diseases from chest X- ray data”. Product
7. Oracle for Research Award: https://www.oracle.com/research/
8. SCICU SC Independent Colleges & Universities Undergraduate Student/Faculty Research Program (2022): Utilizing Natural Language Processing (NLP) to increase the effectiveness of finding career opportunities. Student-Joshua Kiprono, $7,169 (direct, 100%). App Deploy: https://joshuakiplimo-resparse-resumematch-6a8pxp.streamlit.app/ Poster Link [**30] https://scicu.org/about-scicu/programs/, https://scicu.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SCICU-2022-Annual-Report-final.pdf, https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/02/SCICU-2023-625e275a93f01498-300×200.jpeg GitHub Thesis presentation: https://youtu.be/Jx6Q7TaISIU https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/02/Joshua-SCICU-768×681.jpg
Project: https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_0fc28fef39d94861ad5b18e83391a167.docx?dn=JoshuaKipronoThesisDraft.docx
PPT: https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_8bb6fb5a75384bd5888fd7d8f43d51af.pdf
9. Claflin University Smart Home, Center of Excellence Seed Grant (2022): Collection and processing of health-care data for African-American subjects from wrist wearable devices: $19,919.88 (direct, 100%, Pilot funding) Poster Link Github
https://yalegenomics.shinyapps.io/app-smart-home/
10. SC INRE EPSCoR Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program (2022): https://www.furman.edu/integrative-research/education-outreach/research-experience-for-teachers-program/. Github
Project: https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_1ad94ed63c6a49c887177419bdb46567.docx?dn=Etha%20project%20report.docx
11. Google HBCU Career Readiness Capacity Grant (2023): $20,000 (direct, 100%). https://www.tmcf.org/students-alumni/corp-scholar-programs/grow-with-google-hbcu-career-readiness-program-overview/
12. SCICU SC Independent Colleges & Universities Undergraduate Student/Faculty Research Program (2023): A prospective, community-based observational study for creating a comprehensible electronic health record (EHR) database using wearable devices in African American cohort. $7,000 (direct, 100%). Students-Priscilla Fatokun and Oluwamayowa Owolabi Github SCICU research poster Priscilla-Research Presentation [**39]
Project: https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_88f5decdd4c44ce497f7f2f71018c63b.docx?dn=Building%20a%20Responsive%20SmartHome.docx Thesis presentation: https://youtu.be/NUPr-kXKCaU
PPT: https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_65cf61cfe8b8429fae9cfcb31f099f15.pptx?dn=Building%20a%20Responsive%20Smart%20Home.pptx
Project: https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_5add3a1670ff4c68a3cb307ddbe7e811.docx?dn=Priscilla%20Fatokun%27s%20Thesis.docx
PPT: https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_9ea49363c6704e198ccbd724c57a3fdc.pptx?dn=Priscilla%20Fatokun%27s%20Presentation.pptx
13. NSF RII Track-1 Award: AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (2023-2027): Total Award (direct and indirect) $20,000,000.00, Claflin Sub-award $414,000.00. A multi-institutional grant collaboration between Clemson University in partnership with Benedict College, The Citadel, Claflin University, College of Charleston, Francis Marion University, Medical University of South Carolina, South Carolina Research Authority, South Carolina State University, Tri-County Technical College, University of South Carolina, and Winthrop University. GitHub Poster Funding supports Claflin University students Caliese J. Beckford and Mr. Sabb, Dinari. Thrust II: Techniques of computer vision for image analysis. Education and Workforce Development, Project Implementation Team. [*9][**38, 40, 42]
14. Claflin University Summer Seed Research Grant (2023): Utilization of Machine Learning Techniques for Aiding Detection of Ischemic Stroke Lesion, Infarct Volumes, and Small-artery Occlusions: $10,000 (direct, 100%, Pilot funding). Poster Link [*2024:9][**2024:36] Github Paper
Project: https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/04/Seed-Report-2023-d26fc72513e269e3.docx
[Role-Investigator: 1,2,3,4,5,7,8; Co-PI/PI: 6,9,10,11,12,13,14]
Travel Awards (Selected)*:
1. Georgia State University, Biology Graduate Student Association (BGSA), September 2013. Github [*2019: 13][**12]
2. Western Kentucky University, Department of Biology, Nov 2011. Github [*2011: 4][**15]
3. New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) conference, 2018: https://necsi.edu/
4. Institute for Data Engineering and Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019: http://dsf.ideas.gatech.edu/events/mlse
5. Honored Listee, Marquis Who’s Who: https://marquiswhoswho.com/
6. Cascadia R Conf 2021 Workshop Scholarship.
7. Baylor College of Medicine, All of Us Evenings with Genetics (AoUEwG) Research Program’s Underrepresented Biomedical Faculty Summit (UBRFS)
8. Biology Graduate Student Association (BGSA), Georgia State University, American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference, 2019. Github [*2019: 8][**8]
9. Guest Lecturer, Issued by Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune. India. Dec 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, Managing research effectively, 2023 online summer school by Narayanan A, Lahiri C & Pawar S, Center for Research, Innovation & Translation, Department of Biotechnology, Atmiya University, India.
University: 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 (ICAIIS 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 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 Amazon Web Services (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
[*Published articles from publications; **Presentations from conferences] https://www.claflin-computation.com/publications