Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 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 https://www.claflin-computation.com/lab-journey?pgid=ktmii98q-a6104b66-064c-4cd4-bb24-0ccdc51caf10 [*2023:1, 4, 9; 2021: 17, 23][**21, 23, 29, 30] https://github.com/spawar2/Chest-X-ray-Neural-Nets

Claflin University, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242812&HistoricalAwards=false

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 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242812&HistoricalAwards=false Thrust II: Techniques of computer vision for image analysis (https://scepscor.org/adapt-in-sc-thrust-2/) [*9],[**38, 40, 42, 43].

Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA.

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Hardware Grant (2018), Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA: https://cetl.gsu.edu/programs-grants-awards/grant-funded-projects/ [*2021:4],[2024:16]. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-3559-4_28 https://www.claflin-computation.com/lab-journey?pgid=ktmii98q-4e0fd9a6-3d27-4c05-bfa6-84d5dbca154e

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Create-X, Startup Launch Grant (2019), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA: “Utilization of convolutional neural networks for security against password cracking”: https://create-x.gatech.edu/about https://github.com/spawar2/Chest-X-ray-Neural-Nets https://github.com/spawar2/CTA-PAD-Neural-Nets https://mailchi.mp/scepscor.org/sc-epscor-newsletter-13711644

Entrepreneurship Foundation Fund, Connecticut, USA.

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] https://github.com/spawar2/Chest-X-ray-Neural-Nets https://www.startupranking.com/chestai https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/41226/chestai https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/7/3679/files/2023/10/ChestAi-300x167.png https://devpost.com/software/chestai

Culinda Technologies (2020), Texas, USA.

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]. https://github.com/spawar2/Chest-X-ray-Neural-Nets https://www.startupranking.com/chestai https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/41226/chestai https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/7/3679/files/2023/10/ChestAi-300x167.png

SCICU SC Independent Colleges & Universities Undergraduate Student/Faculty Research Program

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+π, $7,169 (direct, Effort=100%). App Deploy: https://joshuakiplimo-resparse-resumematch-6a8pxp.streamlit.app/ https://www.claflin-computation.com/lab-journey?pgid=ktmii98q-43b3c761-ef25-423c-b39c-502c7ea051d5 [**30][**39] https://github.com/spawar2/NSF-SCICU-2022

Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub Azure Credits

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”. https://github.com/spawar2/Chest-X-ray-Neural-Nets https://www.startupranking.com/chestai https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/41226/chestai https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/7/3679/files/2023/10/ChestAi-300x167.png https://devpost.com/software/chestai

Oracle for Research Award: https://www.oracle.com/research/

Oracle for Research Award: https://www.oracle.com/research/ https://github.com/spawar2/Chest-X-ray-Neural-Nets https://devpost.com/software/chestai 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 ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6157-2462 ChestAi Demo: https://youtu.be/5BfRpzYU-T8

SC INRE EPSCoR Research Experience for Teachers (RET), program

SC INRE EPSCoR Research Experience for Teachers (RET), program (2022): https://www.furman.edu/integrative-research/education-outreach/research-experience-for-teachers-program/. Award utilized for configuring computing infrastructure (Lenovo ThinkSystem SR250 rack servers) in the Department of Computer Science for machine learning applications ******Ms. Etha https://github.com/spawar2/NSF-INBRE-EPSCoR-RET SC EPSCoR Research Expertise: https://scepscor.org/research-expertise-profiles-table/

Claflin University Smart Home, Center of Excellence Seed Grant

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) https://www.claflin.edu/ https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_6da54f29ce454f609486dc3cf27bddc9.pdf https://yalegenomics.shinyapps.io/app-smart-home/ https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campuspress.yale.edu/dist/7/3679/files/2023/10/SmartHome-Database-300x149.png

Google HBCU Career Readiness Capacity Grant (2023): $20,000.

Google HBCU Career Readiness Capacity Grant (2023): $20,000 (Direct costs, Effort=100%). https://www.tmcf.org/students-alumni/corp-scholar-programs/grow-with-google-hbcu-career-readiness-program-overview/ Thesis presentation: https://youtu.be/Jx6Q7TaISIU https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/02/Joshua-SCICU-768x681.jpg https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/06/SIP-768x576.jpg

SCICU SC Independent Colleges & Universities Undergraduate Student/Faculty Program

SCICU 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 costs, Effort=100%). Students-**Priscilla Fatokun and **Oluwamayowa Owolabi. https://www.scicu.org/ https://github.com/spawar2/SMART-HOME-CLAFLIN https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/12/SCICU-research-poster.pptx [**30],[**39].

Claflin University, https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/04/Springer-92ddf1be965c76

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). https://www.claflin.edu/ https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_e12daf8e87c348c5a9347af693993739.pdf [**33], https://github.com/spawar2/Hemorhage-Detection-CT-Scan [*2024:9], [**2024:36] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-8031-4_3

Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune. India

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 https://github.com/spawar2/Shrodinger-Equation Thesis presentation: https://youtu.be/NUPr-kXKCaU https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/08/Pawar-AWS-ML-Bootcamp-Part-II-Certificate.pdf

Atmiya University, India

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/2024/04/Ayo-Presentation-694c17651773f092-300x225.jpg https://github.com/spawar2/2023-summer-school-

2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems Chongqi(ICAIIS 2021)

Keynote Speaker, 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems Chongqing, China (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 Springer Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-34960-7_23 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978

4th International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Simulation 2021

Keynote Speaker, 4th International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Simulation Guangzhou, China 2021. Machine learning application in genomics, by Shrikant Pawar, Keynote speaker and general chair, http://www.4th-amms.org/com.html Honored Listee, Marquis Who's Who, https://marquiswhoswho.com/, https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/01/Marquis-10a3b8275af845e6-286x300.png

Georgia State University, Western Kentucky University, New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI)

1. Georgia State University, Biology Graduate Student Association (BGSA), September 2013. 2. Western Kentucky University, Department of Biology, Nov 2011. 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. Cascadia R Conf 2021 Workshop Scholarship. 6. Baylor College of Medicine, All of Us Evenings with Genetics (AoUEwG), Research

AWS

AWS Machine Learning University Bootcamp, Introduction to Machine Learning. https://the-cs.org/train-aws-pd https://www.claflin-computation.com/lab-journey?pgid=ktmii98q-e748b57f-c1bd-4fb3-866d-cb180d98ed67, https://the-cs.org/train https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/01/Summer-2023-a4bc36a96ad5b076-300x212.jpeg https://the-cs.org/train%20https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/12/Machine-Learning-Intensive-300x232.png https://the-cs.org/train-aws-pd

AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Machine Learning Professional Development Intensive Bootcamp Part I for Teachers #machinelearning, #AI, #AWS https://the-cs.org/train-aws-pd https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/educators/ https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/mlu/ https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/03/Pawar-March-2024-AWS-Bootcamp-Part-I-Certificate-1c9070db6c2e07ab.pdf Subaward, Clemson University https://cecas.clemson.edu/biophotonics/

AI-Enabled Construction of Aligned Collagen Using Two-Photon Techniques (2024-2025) Role: Co-PI, (di

National Science Foundation South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), RII Track-1 Award, GAIN CRP (Grants for Applications in Industry and Networking Collaborative Research Program): AI-Enabled Construction of Aligned Collagen Using Two-Photon Techniques (2024-2025): Total Award (Direct and indirect costs) $70,000.00 [**43], Poster Funding supports Claflin University students **Caliese J. Beckford and **Mr. Sabb, Dinari. ADAPT https://scepscor.org/gain-crp/

Claflin University, https://www.claflin.edu/, https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/

Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) (2024): Total Award (direct and indirect) $8,840.00 Students supported **Lierra Rivera and **Kalyn Wesby https://github.com/spawar2/BTEC599-Biotechnology-Research-I https://www.linkedin.com/in/leiara-rivera-3a3069233 **Germari Cull Adrian Lockwood: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-lockwood-703244109 https://www.linkedin.com/in/germari-cull-a9b980264 https://github.com/spawar2/Blood-Cancer-Analysis BTEC699

SCICU SC Independent Colleges & Universities Undergraduate Student/Faculty Program

Students: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owolabi-oluwamayowa-aa414b1b9? https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscilla-fatokun-35007119a https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuakiprono/ https://github.com/Caliese https://github.com/DinariSabb https://github.com/WKalynn https://github.com/lerivera27 https://github.com/AdrianL769 https://github.com/germari https://github.com/Mayor90 https://github.com/eniolla https://github.com/JoshuaKiplimo https://github.com/CoolSubash

AWS

2023-2024, The Coding School: Data Visualization, Machine Learning Models, Responsible Artificial Intelligence. https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/07/pawar-July-2024-AWS-Machine-Learning-Bootcamp-Part-I-Certificate.pdf Artificial Intelligence in Genomics, Bridging Molecular Diagnostics from Bench to Computer. 2024 National Hands-on Advanced Genomics Workshop, Gujarat State Biotechnology Mission (GSBTM) and Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat, Atmiya Uni

The Department of Defense (DoD), Army Materiel Command (AMC)

The Department of Defense (DoD), Army Materiel Command (AMC), HBCU/MI Equipment/Instrumentation award (2024–2025), Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. Total Award (direct and indirect), Role: PI, Effort=100% $410,596. Basic, Applied, and Advanced Research in Science and Engineering: Intel Xeon NVIDIA GPU Server for Enhancing Computational Capabilities at Claflin University. https://www.claflin.edu/ https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=W911NF23S0014

US Sciencegateways, SGX3's HackHPC

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. https://hackhpc.github.io/facultyhack-gateways23/teams.html https://sciencegateways.org/gateways2024-PROGRAM https://github.com/spawar2/Sciencegateways-SGX3-s-HackHPC-Team-Claflin https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-09-at-8.43.06%E2%80%AFAM-300x226.png

Genomic Data Science Community Network (GDSCN)

Genomic Data Science Community Network (GDSCN) symposium, October 16, 2024, University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla (UPRA), USA with Dr. Chowdhury, Department of Biology, Claflin University, South Carolina, USA. https://www.gdscn.org/events https://www.claflin.edu/academics-research/faculty-research/meet-our-faculty/kamal-chowdhury https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/memories/#jp-carousel-2667