Assistant Professor |
Claflin University
From January 2024 to Current • 2 year(s)
2022: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Department of Computer Science and with a joint appointment in Biology at Claflin University. Course coordinator for Bioinformatics major. Enhanced the established teaching program by enhancing the learning and research opportunities for students in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Promoted peer-peer learning, hands-on laboratory assignments to enhance critical thinking skills [classes including Probability & Statistics I & II, Biostatistics, Data Analysis (topics including descriptive & inferential statistics, variable types, distribution properties, discrete & continuous types, R functions, probability distributions, ANOVA, T-test, correlation, chi-Square, regression, etc.), Honors & Junior Seminar, Bioinformatics (topics including sequence alignment algorithms, scoring matrices, microarray analysis, phylogenetic analysis, bootstrapping, tree building, visualization: heat maps, volcano plots, pie charts, blast, Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) datasets mining, Read, Pre-processing/Normalization (Affy, Oligo, Limma-RMA, Quantile, Mas5.0), Fold change expression analysis, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA), Pathways and protein downstream interactome analysis. Sequence alignments (Margaret Dayhoff, PAM, blossom scoring matrices, global & local alignment), secondary & tertiary structure prediction, homology modeling, and protein folding)], Intro to Digital Logic Design and Lab (Emphasis on digital computer hardware and software, fundamentals of Boolean algebra (MATH111), switching and switching functions, Digital logic gates, applications to logic design, minimization of Boolean function, logic design with arrays, finite state model for sequential state minimization, design abstractions, representations, process, Karnaugh maps, K-map simplification, combinatorial components, multiplexers, decoders, selectors, ROMs, PLAs, hybrid components, sequential logic, Mealy/Moore finite state machines, state minimization, encoding, control unit design), Object Oriented Programming (topics including inheritance, msg passing, polymorphism, recursion, abstraction, encapsulation, software design techniques, etc.), CSCI101 Introduction to computer technology (computer hardware (processors, LMC, storage, I/O devices, software life cycle), software components and applications, programming constructs, secure computing (threats, malware, phishing, vulnerability), Exploratory Data Analysis (visualization plots), statistical tests (T-test, correlation, ANOVA, chi-square) functions, ethics in computing, promoted open door policy for improving student-teacher relations, and promoting virtual teaching to ensure competency with global culture. Contributions towards graduate ABET accreditation proposal for School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Engaged in faculty and staff enhancement activities by monthly departmental meetings and development workshops, serve the college and community by participating in science fairs and promoting STEM program in local community, involved in research and faculty development activities. Worked on course amendments and new course development for improvising syllabus structure of junior, senior and honors computer science seminar classes CSCI 391, HNTH 391 and Data Science (Data wrangling, visualization, Machine Learning QDA, LDA, ROC, Decision Trees, Regularization, Text Analysis Feature Engineering, Classification and Model Evaluation, Regression: Basics and Prediction, Evaluation and Interpretation, Clustering, etc.) course. Biotechnology Program Advisory Board, Faculty search committee member, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science for hiring new Computer Engineering and Cyber Security faculty. Academic Advisor (thesis & project) and mentored 41 students (HBCU graduates, under-graduate URISE, high-school BR-SIP, interns) to successfully transition them to medical, graduate schools and STEM jobs (UConn Medical School, UAB, Microsoft, etc.). Current projects in collaboration with Dr. Liles, Dr. Bagasra, Dr. Chowdhary, Dr. Sahu, Dr. Tisdale, Dr. Konneman Daniel, Dr. Derrick Swinton, Dr. Gao Zhi, Dr. Theppatorn & Dr. Desowky Scired: Scientific Research & Development at Claflin University. 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
2022: Research affiliate at Yale University School of Medicine
2023: Georgia Research Consulting (GRC) LLC, Research & Training in STEM Studies, Atlanta: Title: Co-founder. Research and teaching consultant for graduate and undergraduate students. (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)
2020: Yale University, New Haven, USA. Title: Associate Research Scientist (https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/shrikant_pawar/), current projects in collaboration with Dr. Christian Griñán Ferré, Univesity of Barcelona; Dr. Kleinstein, Yale University; Dr. Uduman, Dana Farber Harvard; Dr. George Tegos, Gamma Therapeutics; Dr. Lahiri, Sunway University; Dr. Allen. Bale, Dr. Hui. Zhang, DNA Diagnostic Lab at Yale University; Dr. Insoo. Kang; Dr. Kei-Hoi Chung; and Dr. Leying Guan at Yale University
2020: ChestAi, New Haven, USA. Title: Founding member (https://www.chestai.org/ & https://www.crunchbase.com/person/shrikant-pawar-f817). ChestAi was started with computer scientists and geneticists at Yale university with a common motivation of providing a free and open source platform for rapid and robust diagnosis of pathologies identified by radiological examinations (https://www.ai4hlth.org/product-profiles/ChestAi) (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 https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/41226/chestai https://startupbuffer.com/compare-atlantica-vs-chestai https://www.saashub.com/chestai-alternatives).
2019: Karyosoft, Indianapolis, USA. Title: Genomics Data Scientist, worked on angular, nodejs, flask, AWS, MongoDB, Rabbit-mq, Nginx webserver, Jbrowse techniques for data mining and software visualization.
2019: Synergy (Plus+) LLC.P.O. Atlanta, USA. Title: Data Scientist, worked on web development, statistical and data mining techniques for platform optimization.
2018: Georgia State University, Department of Biology, Atlanta, USA. Title: Instructor of Record. Next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis in R, Introduction to operating server and High Performance Computing cluster. Current projects in collaboration with Dr. Eichenbaum, Dr. Aneja, Dr. Charles Derby, & Dr. Chung-Dar Lu.
2018: Georgia State University, Department of Computer Science & Biology, Atlanta, USA. Title: Ahmed T. Abdelal Fellow in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
2013: Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Title: Center for International Collaborative (CIC) Research Fellow
2012: University of Iowa, Department of Biology, Iowa City, USA. Title: Visiting Research Fellow. Current projects in collaboration with Dr. Claire Rinehart & Dr. Cheryl Davis.
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