Education

Masters in Computer Science (GPA 3.6) and a Ph.D. (GPA 3.6) from Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. Continuing Studies Program (2023-24): Stanford University, United States of America (USA).

https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/biology_diss/216/

https://biology.gsu.edu/academics/graduate/graduate-curriculum-changes/#doct

https://archived-bulletin.stanford.mobi/continuingstudies/

Current projects in collaboration with Dr. Liles, Dr. Bagasra, Dr. Chowdhary, Dr. Sahu, "Machine learning applications (generative adversarial network (GAN)) in cybersecurity", "Deep learning for predicting biofilm patterns from surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)" with Dr. Tzeng, Dr. Anker, Dr. Rao, & Dr. Bhattacharya, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA, Dr. Tisdale (National Science Foundation South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR, AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT)), RII Track-1 Award.

https://scepscor.org/ADAPTinSC/about_ADAPTinSC.html

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242812&HistoricalAwards=false AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina, ADAPT award, Techniques of computer vision for image analysis), Dr. Konneman Daniel, Dr. Derrick Swinton, Dr. Gao Zhi, https://scepscor.org/gain-crp/ Subaward, Clemson University. https://cecas.clemson.edu/biophotonics/ Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. Dr. Theppatorn & Dr. Desowky Scired: Scientific Research & Development at Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. https://www.claflin.edu/.

Current projects in collaboration with Dr. Christian Griñán Ferré, Univesity of Barcelonam, Spain; Dr. Kleinstein, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Dr. Uduman, Dana Farber Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA; Dr. George Tegos, Gamma Therapeutics; Dr. Lahiri, Sunway University, Malaysia; Dr. Allen. Bale, Dr. Hui. Zhang, DNA Diagnostic Lab at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Dr. Insoo. Kang; Dr. Kei-Hoi Chung; and Dr. Leying Guan at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/why-does-covid-19-cause-severe-illness-in-some-patients-but-not-others/

“Comprehensive Approach to Cardio-Renal Health in Lupus: Investigating the Role of Sex, Endothelial Dysfunction, and Social Determinants of Health” with Dr. Jim Oates, at Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, USA.

https://education.musc.edu/muscapps/facultydirectory/Oates-Jim

Current projects in collaboration with Dr. Eichenbaum, Dr. Aneja, Dr. Charles Derby, & Dr. Chung-Dar Lu.

Current projects in collaboration with Dr. Claire Rinehart & Dr. Cheryl Davis.

https://catalog.wku.edu/graduate/science-engineering/biology/biology-ms/#programcurriculumtext

Dr. Eichenbaum, "Biofilm transcriptomics", Dr. Aneja, "Ovarian Biomarkers", Dr. Charles Derby, "Chemosensory transcriptomics" & Dr. Chung-Dar Lu, "Spermine transcriptomics".

 Dr. Claire Rinehart & Dr. Cheryl Davis, "Toxoplasma gondi transcriptomics". His dissertation/research is focused on big data (Biomedical imaging, Spectral, Single cell, Next-generation sequencing, Microarrays, X-ray crystallography, et cetera (etc).) analysis with machine learning techniques (Neural networks, Support Vector Machines (SVM's), Random forest, Supervised, Un-supervised techniques, Computer vision, Restricted boltzmann machines, Clustering algorithms, etc.).

Dr. Liles, Smart Home Claflin University seed funding, Dr. Bagasra, "Coronavirus transcriptomics", Dr. Chowdhary, "Prostate Biomarkers", Dr. Sahu, "Machine learning applications (generative adversarial network (GAN)) in cybersecurity", "Deep learning for predicting biofilm patterns from surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)" with Dr. Tzeng, Dr. Anker, Dr. Rao, & Dr. Bhattacharya, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA, Dr. Tisdale  National Science Foundation South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR, AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT)), RII Track-1 Award.

https://scepscor.org/ADAPTinSC/about_ADAPTinSC.html

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2242812&HistoricalAwards=false AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina, ADAPT award, Techniques of computer vision for image analysis, Dr. Konneman Daniel, "Systematics in Coccoloba (Polygonaceae)",  Dr. Derrick Swinton, Kean University, Union, New Jersey, USA, "Machine learning for nanoparticle property prediction", Dr. Gao Zhi, Clemson University, South Carolina, USA Subaward, https://scepscor.org/gain-crp/ Clemson University, https://cecas.clemson.edu/biophotonics/ GAIN CRP award (Grants for Applications in Industry and Networking Collaborative Research Program): "AI-Enabled Construction of Aligned Collagen Using Two-Photon Techniques" & Dr. Theppatorn, Dr. Desowky.



Dr. Christian Griñán Ferré, "G9a/GLP transcriptomics", Univesity of Barcelona, Spain; Dr. Kleinstein, Yale University New Haven, USA, "IMMuno Phenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort (IMPACC)", Dr. Ruth Montgomery https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/ruth-montgomery/ "Single Cell analysis, Cytometry by time of flight (cytOF)"; Dr. Uduman, Dana Farber Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA; "ICOS gene transcriptomics", Dr. George Tegos, Gamma Therapeutics, "Probiotics efficacy"; Dr. Lahiri, Sunway University, Malaysia, "Cancer Biomarkers"; Dr. Allen. Bale, Dr. Hui. Zhang, DNA Diagnostic Lab at Yale University, New Haven, USA; Dr. Insoo. Kang, "T cell Transcriptomics"; Dr. Kei-Hoi Chung, Linkedimm; and Dr. Leying Guan, "Supervised bayesian factor analysis" at Yale University, New Haven, USA.

Dr. Harrison, "Machine Learning for studying drug resistance in Human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus" and Dr. Weber, "X-ray crystallography in HIV", Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. https://csds.gsu.edu/profile/robert-harrison/; https://cas.gsu.edu/profile/irene-weber/ https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=294685

Research currently funded by Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), Georgia State University; Create-X, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, Rothberg Fund; Entrepreneurship Foundation Fund, Connecticut, USA; Culinda Technologies, Texas, USA; SC Independent Colleges & Universities SCICU Undergraduate Student/Faculty Research Program; Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub; Oracle for Research; Institutional Development Award (IDeA), Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), Research Education of Teachers SC INRE South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program; Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA, Smart Home, Center of Excellence Seed Grant; Google HBCU Career Readiness Capacity Grant; National Science Foundation South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), RII Track-1 Award: AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina; National Science Foundation South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR, AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT)), RII Track-1 Award, GAIN CRP Subaward, Clemson University (Grants for Applications in Industry and Networking Collaborative Research Program; The Department of Defense (DoD), Army Materiel Command (AMC), HBCU/MI Equipment/Instrumentation grant award.

https://cetl.gsu.edu/programs-grants-awards/grant-funded-projects/%C2%A0"

https://create-x.gatech.edu/about"

https://medium.com/tsai-city/kickstarting-healthcare-innovation-with-the-rothberg-catalyzer-prototype-fund-6f5a1f37c5c2"

https://www.entrepreneurshipfoundation.org/"

https://www.culinda.io/"

https://scicu.org/events/scicu-undergraduate-student-faculty-research-symposium-4/"

https://www.scicu.org/"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups"

https://devpost.com/software/chestai"

https://github.com/spawar2/Chest-X-ray-Neural-Nets"

https://www.furman.edu/integrative-research/wp-content/uploads/sites/119/2022/02/Claflin-Pawar-S..pdf"

https://www.claflin.edu/"

https://yalegenomics.shinyapps.io/app-smart-home/"

https://www.tmcf.org/students-alumni/corp-scholar-programs/grow-with-google-hbcu-career-readiness-program-overview/"

Doctoral & Masters Degree Certificate: https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2025/05/GSU-300x212.jpg

Masters Degree Certificate: https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2025/05/WKU.pdf

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

https://scepscor.org/gain-crp/"

https://cecas.clemson.edu/biophotonics/"

https://mailchi.mp/scepscor.org/sc-epscor-newsletter-13711644"

https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/08/DOD-300x300.jpg"

https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=W911NF23S0014"

Career

Pawar is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track faculty) in Department of Computer Science and with a joint appointment in Biology at Claflin University (HBCU/MSI), Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA with a Masters in Computer Science and a Ph.D. (2014-2019) (https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/biology_diss/216/) from Georgia State University (https://biology.gsu.edu/academics/graduate/graduate-curriculum-changes/#doct), Atlanta, USA. He’s also an co-founder of a Connecticut based AI (https://www.ai4hlth.org/product-profiles/ChestAi) company, ChestAi (https://www.chestai.org/); Georgia Research Consulting (GRC), Research & Training in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Studies, Atlanta, USA, Snorkel AI (independent contractor, https://snorkel.ai/), a member of Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), collaborators (https://www.healthdata.org/research-analysis/gbd), The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), (https://www.healthdata.org/about) at the University of Washington (https://www.washington.edu/), Seattle, USA and a research affiliate at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Until last year, he was an Associate Research Scientist at Yale University, School of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Yale Center for Genome Analysis (YCGA), New Haven, USA. His dissertation/research is focused on big data (next-generation sequencing, microarrays, X-ray crystallography, et cetera (etc).) analysis with artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning techniques (Neural networks, SVM’s, Restricted boltzmann machines, Clustering algorithms, etc.). If you share similar interests feel free to contact. You can browse some of the recent machine learning applications on GitHub in projects. The detailed list of credentials can be found at Claflin Profile, Linkedin, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI Bibliography or Google Scholar. AOL: pawarshrikant@aol.com; Proton: pawwar@proton.me; Tutanota: pawwar@tutanota.com; Discord id: pawar#7724, shrikant.pawar@yale.edu, Shrikantpawar3@icloud.com; pawarshrikant@zohomail.in; pawarshrikant@kolabnow.com. Field of Research/Study: Bioinformatics; Computational Biology; Data Science; Artificial Intelligence (AI) /Machine Learning (ML); Computer Vision; Biomarker study. South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), Research Expertise: https://scepscor.org/research-expertise-profiles-table/

https://scepscor.org/pawar-shrikant-research-focus/

Open Researcher and Contributor identifier (ORCiD): https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6157-2462

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/chestai https://www.f6s.com/company/chestai https://tracxn.com/d/companies/chestai/__MB57iTXFVTO2fhlmUZpozcbLBTim3zBYEfD1xFox4mI https://theorg.com/org/chestai https://www.startupranking.com/chestai ChestAi Demo: https://youtu.be/5BfRpzYU-T8 https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/41226/chestai https://startupbuffer.com/compare-atlantica-vs-chestai https://www.saashub.com/chestai-alternatives https://www.saashub.com/georgia-research-consulting-grc-llc-alternatives https://www.f6s.com/profile/5298554 https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/georgia-research-consulting-grc-llc https://www.manta.com/c/m1wy0z8/chestai

https://www.merchantcircle.com/chestai-orangeburg-sc

https://in.enrollbusiness.com/BusinessProfile/6817822/ChestAi

https://www.showmelocal.com/37520422-chestai-columbia https://www.indianyellowpages.com/mumbai/chestAi

https://www.claflin.edu/academics-research/faculty-research/meet-our-faculty/dr.-pawar-shrikant

https://www.claflin-computation.com/

https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/ Current Stopover Coordinate’s: 41*22’06”N 72*55’11”W,

http://www.linkedin.com/in/shrikant-pawar-ms-ph-d-5bb37a16

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/18IT7znYQEs1yv/bibliography/public/

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SvcIPSsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

https://github.com/spawar2

https://devpost.com/software/chestai https://www.delhionline.in/business/chestai-51996

https://www.freelistingindia.in/listings/chestai https://github.com/spawar2/Chest-X-ray-Neural-Nets/

https://www.cybo.com/US-biz/yale-aids-program_2K https://foursquare.com/v/chestai/675d2813c7ac2e5e0e40741c

https://www.hotfrog.com/company/da94eb8a85049a717759d381bc7edbf1

https://www.justdial.com/Mumbai/Engineering-Companies/

Doctoral & Masters Degree Certificate: https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2025/05/GSU-300x212.jpg

Masters Degree Certificate: https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2025/05/WKU.pdf https://www.callupcontact.com/b/businessprofile/ChestAI/9426702

Teaching-student-advising: https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/teaching-student-advising/

Faculty Profile: https://www.claflin.edu/academics-research/faculty-research/meet-our-faculty/dr.-pawar-shrikant

Alper-Doger (AD) Scientific Index: https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist/shrikant-pawar-ms/855086

Works

• Other Work

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