BTEC 599/699/698 Biotechnology Research I & II, BTEC 599/699/698 Research I (1 Credit) 5 students **Undergraduate/Graduate Class & Lab, University https://www.claflin.edu/ Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, United States of America. https://www.claflin.edu/academics-research/schools-departments/school-of-natural-sciences-and-mathematics/department-of-mathematics-computer-science/computer-science
January 19, 2023.
This is the class content for BTEC599 Biotechnology Research I.
GitHub Link for codebase: https://github.com/spawar2/BTEC599-Biotechnology-Research-I
Student Profiles
Research Students GitHub Projects: Student-GitHub-Projects
​**Bioinformatics Major, Honors Computer Science Engineering, Mathematics, Management Information Science (MIS), Cyber Security, Biotechnology.
"Prostrate-Cancer-Biomarker-Analysis", Thesis Outline: https://github.com/spawar2/Prostrate-Cancer-Biomarker-Analysis
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zion-ratchford-07514b1b9
This project in collaboration with **Zion Ratchford+π, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). π+ https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/04/ROLE-CIRCULATION-BIOMARKERS-IN-PROSTATE-CANCER-DIAGNOSIS-4dbb44b57f793d6a.pptx
​**Mr. Adrian Lockwood+π†, Grant/award/project title: “Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)", "Land Cover Classification by Using Hyperspectral images" (U-RISE mentor) (Title III and Special Initiative Office SEED Funding, Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%)) "Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)", Presentation Video PPT. Presently Internship at Student 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/)
https://github.com/spawar2/SMART-HOME-CLAFLIN
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 https://github.com/rushikeshchopaderc
https://github.com/ndubuisx https://github.com/dieko-ade https://github.com/esther-tk https://github.com/zionanari
https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscilla-fatokun-35007119a
https://github.com/mayor90/thesis
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/12/SCICU-research-poster.pptx
This project in collaboration with **Mr. Owalabi Oluwamayowa+π† (South Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities SCICU award funded project, Columbia, South Carolina, USA. Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%)​), Thesis outline**(Presently Quality Engineer, Apple, Texas, USA) Priscilla E. Fatokun+π† (South Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities SCICU award funded project, Columbia, South Carolina, USA. Role: PD (Project Director), (Direct costs, Effort=100%)), (February 1, 2022- August 31, 2022). Award (Start date- End date). Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). Grant/award/project title: “Project: SMART-HOME proposal “collection and processing of health-care data for African-American subjects from wrist wearable devices". [**2023:39] π+, Thesis outline.
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/12/SCICU-research-poster.pptx
https://www.linkedin.com/in/owolabi-oluwamayowa-aa414b1b9?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscilla-fatokun-35007119a
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/02/Ayo-2d134734fa2690e0-300x163.png
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2024/02/Priscillia-b3fbc5f20cc2f248-300x190.png
Thesis video presentation: https://youtu.be/NUPr-kXKCaU
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***Leiara C. Rivera (Graduate student) (Title III and Special Initiative Office SEED Funding, Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA Role: PI, (May 1, 2024- August 31, 2024). Award (Start date- End date). (Direct costs, Effort=100%)): Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). Grant/award/project title: “Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)". Presently doctoral student at Clemson University, Bioengineering Program School of Computing, Biomedical Data Science & Informatics. π+ GitHub
​**Ms. April Ossai, "Sustainable Search Platform", Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2025). π +
**Germari Cull, +π, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). : https://www.linkedin.com/in/germari-cull-a9b980264​ 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)" (2024): Total Award Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%), (May 1, 2024- August 31, 2024). Award (Start date- End date). (Direct and indirect costs) $8,840.00 Students supported **Lierra Rivera+π and **Kalyn Wesby+π https://www.claflin.edu/
**Mr. Adrian Lockwood, (National Institute of Health (NIH) Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) mentor), +π, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). (Title III and Special Initiative Office SEED Funding, (May 1, 2024- August 31, 2024). Award (Start date- End date). Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%)) π+
"Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)".
https://github.com/spawar2/BTEC599-Biotechnology-Research-I
https://github.com/spawar2/Blood-Cancer-Analysis
Neural networks on CTA in peripheral arterial diseases (PAD): https://github.com/spawar2/CTA-PAD-Neural-Nets
(National Science Foundation (NSF) South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), Grant/award/project title: “AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT)", RII Track-1 award funded Role: PI, (Direct costs, Effort=100%) project, (August 1, 2023- August 31, 2027). Award (Start date- End date).): https://scepscor.org/adapt-in-sc-thrust-2/. GAIN Subaward, Clemson University https://cecas.clemson.edu/biophotonics/ https://scepscor.org/gain-crp/
This project in collaboration with https://github.com/Caliese **Caliese J. Beckford+π, (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 funded Role: PI (Principal Investigator), NSF Identifier: 000879633, Award Number: 2242812, Award/Fund Agency Code: 4900, Program Element/Reference Code's (PEC/Congressional District): 193Y00, (2025 Summer intern at Novartis, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)​, 075Z/7715/8037/9150/SMET/03, Assistance Listing Number: 47.083 (August 1, 2023- August 31, 2027). Award (Start date- End date). (Direct costs, Effort=100%, 1.50 person per month release) project) GAIN CRP Subaward, Clemson University π+(Grants for Applications in Industry and Networking Collaborative Research Program), Thesis outline, Undergraduate student: **Mr. Sabb, Dinari+π, Presentation Video PPT, **Mr. Oluwademiladeayo Ashade+π,
(National Science Foundation South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), Grant/award/project title: “AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT)", RII Track-1 award funded project Role: PI, NSF Identifier: 000879633, (Direct costs, Effort=100%)) Subaward, (August 1, 2023- August 31, 2027). Award (Start date- End date). Clemson University​ GAIN CRP (Grants for Applications in Industry and Networking Collaborative Research Program), Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). Machine learning application for biomedical device development. [**2023:39], [**2022:30], [**2024:45​], [**2024:52], [**2024:47, **2025:52, 53, 55], GitHub, Poster 1, Poster 2. [**2023:34], Github.
​**Mr. Amrinder Singh+π, (2025 Summer intern at Amazon, Seattle, USA)​, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. Fayetteville state university, North Carolina, + [**2024:45], (Summer 2024). Machine Learning applications in computer aided diagnosis (CAD) hemorrhage, stroke.
**Ms. Taonga. Kandiwo (Improving Alignment techniques for DNA sequencing using machine learning), Thesis outline, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA (Fall 2023). π+
**Ms. Kalia Glover+π, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). Presently Software Developer at J.A. White & Associates, LLC. Thesis outline.
https://scepscor.org/pawar-shrikant-research-focus/
https://scepscor.org/research-expertise-profiles-table/
​**Mr. Subash Neupane+π (Thesis Advisor), Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2026), (2025 Summer intern at Amazon, Seattle, USA)​. **Mr. Amrinder Singh+π (Thesis Advisor), Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2026). (National Science Foundation (NSF) South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), Grant/award/project title: “AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT)",RII Track-1 award funded Role: 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) project).
https://github.com/JoshuaKiplimo
**Mr. Joshua Kiprano†, Poster, Thesis Outline, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA South Carolina, USA. π+
Grant/award/project title: “Thesis: Natural Language Processing in managing and tracking applications" (Fall 2022). (South Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities SCICU award funded project, Columbia, South Carolina, USA.​)" (February 1, 2022-December 31, 2022). Award (Start date- End date), Presently software engineer at Atlassian. Role: Project Director.
https://github.com/spawar2/NSF-SCICU-2022
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2023/02/Joshua-SCICU-768x681.jpg
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuakiprono/
https://github.com/spawar2/SMART-HOME-CLAFLIN
https://www.claflin-computation.com/_files/ugd/81dd80_8bb6fb5a75384bd5888fd7d8f43d51af.pdf
Thesis video presentation: https://youtu.be/Jx6Q7TaISIU
Ms. Jamesha jones, Presently medical scribe at ScribeAmerica. π..
Ms. Kalia Glover, Presently Software Developer at J.A. White & Associates, LLC.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/jawandassociatesllc
12. **Ms. Mendel H. Rivers+π, Presently Associate Financial Analyst at Dominion Energy. Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023).
**Ms. Zion Ratchford, Presently Associate Scientist at DPX Technologies. ∑Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). [Thesis Outline, "Prostrate-Cancer-Biomarker-Analysis": https://github.com/spawar2/Prostrate-Cancer-Biomarker-Analysis This project in collaboration with Zion Ratchford, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). ] "Exploring the role of Circulating Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis", ++. π.
**Mr. Emmanuel Ndubuisi, Thesis Outline, Undergraduate student: Claflin University Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA South Carolina, USA. π+
Thesis: "Protein Classification Using Embeddings from Language Models Trained on Amino Acid Sequences" (Fall 2022). Presently software engineer at Microsoft​.
​**Mr. Enoch Adelekan, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023). "Co-expression analysis on RNAseq data to validate the effects of deregulation of ER stress on unfolded protein response (UPR) in aging studies", Thesis outline, ++. π:†. Presently software engineer at Microsoft​.
This project was in collaboration with *Mr. Madhu Gottti, Undergraduate student, Stanford University, California, USA Amity Public School, Connecticut, USA. "Experiential Learning Program Project: Identifying biomarkers between lymphoma and leukemia cancer patients" (Fall 2021). Los Osos High School, California. π+ https://github.com/spawar2/National-Longitudinal-Study
**Mr. Bimal Itani+π, (Thesis Advisor), Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. + [**2024:45], (Summer 2024). "Machine Learning applications in computer aided diagnosis (CAD) hemorrhage, brain tumor, stroke, and cervical fractures".
This project was in collaboration with
*Ms. A Agrawal, University of Connecticut, Special Program in Medicine (BS/MD), Farmington, USA. "Experiential Learning Program Project: Identifying biomarkers between lymphoma and leukemia cancer patients" (Fall 2021). CT STEM and Norwalk Science Fair (Poster). π+
https://github.com/spawar2/Blood-Cancer-Analysis
**Ms. Toluwalope Awoleke, “Design and Development of an Outfit Recommendation System using Computer Vision and AI", Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2026). π +.
**Ms. Arianna Sanders, "Analyzing Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) data for predicting mortality rates using machine learning techniques", Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2024). π​+. Thesis outline, Presentation PPT:
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2025/04/Arianna-Sanders-thesis-pres.pptx
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2025/04/Thesis-Outline.docx
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2025/04/Arianna-Sanders-thesis-pres-1.pptx
https://campuspress.yale.edu/shrikantpawar/files/2025/04/Arianna-Presentation-300x225.png
**Mr. Oluwademiladeayo Ashade, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2024). "Autism and Attention Deficit Disorder biomarkers". π​+. Grant/award/project title: “Machine learning application for biomedical device development (Peripheral Arterial Disease from Computed tomography angiography (CTA))". (August 1, 2023- August 31, 2027). Award (Start date- End date). 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, (Fall 2026). (National Science Foundation (NSF) South Carolina Established Program for Stem Cooperative Research (SC EPSCoR), Grant/award/project title: “AI-enabled Devices for the Advancement of Personalized and Transformative Healthcare in South Carolina (ADAPT)",RII Track-1 award funded Role: 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) project).​
​**Ms. Anaiya Fredrick, "Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) and HSV-1/HSV-2 Viral Latency", Power-Point (Video PPT). Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2023), ++. Power-Point (Video PPT). π..
***Mr. Jaylin McCollum†, "Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)", Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2026). π +. [**2025:57]
​**Ms. Laila S. Winfield, "Biomarker Identification for the Diagnosis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)", Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2026). π +.
"Hemoglobin and cancerous mole monitoring using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), image analysis techniques, and machine learning": https://github.com/spawar2/NIRS-Machine-Learning. In collaboration with *Aryan Shrivastav, sophomore at Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA. π+ https://github.com/AryanS-0101
Student Graduations/Convocation.
**Mr. Jadon Edwards, E (Thesis Advisor), “Orangeburg Data Governance Hub: A Platform for Community Engagement and Accountability”, Future of Stem Scholars Initiative and Strada Scholar, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2024). π +.
**Mr. Xavier Ravenell, “AI Comment Filter”, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. (Fall 2024). π +.
2025-2026 Research capstone project Savannah River Mission Completion (SRMC) Work Planning and Control (WP&C) Process for Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF), students Tywan Wright, Jasmine Young, ***Jaylin McCollum, Swikriti Neupane, Usir Jackson, and Eddie Hopkins, Undergraduate student: Claflin University, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA. Secretary, Claflin University Friends of the Earth, Minority Association of Pre-Medical Students at Claflin University (Fall 2026). π +.
​**Bioinformatics Major, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Management Information Science (MIS), Undergraduate Students, Department of Computer Science or Biology.
**Reseach Assistant Students; *High School Students: 7; ****Undergraduate Students, Bioinformatics major, or Honors Computer Science/Engineering, Mathematics, Management Information Science (MIS), Cyber Security, Biotechnology, Department of Management Information Science, Cybersecurity Major; Undergraduate Students, Department of Computer Science or Biology, Department of Management Information Science, Cybersecurity Major: 69; ***Graduate/Masters Students: 4; ****Physicians trainees: 4; *****Undergraduate Interns: 6; ******High School Teachers: 2, †: The Alice Carson Tisdale Honors College/Center at Claflin University​. Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Certified for Responsible Conduct for Research (RCR).
π: Classes taught: STAT401; BIOL341; BIOL441; CSCI101; CSCI/HNTH391/392; BIOL620; CSCI225; CSCI455; CSCI207; BTEC599/699.Programming language: + Python; ++ R; +++ Python, Javascript, HTML; ++++ Java; +++++ C++
+ Python; ++ R; +++ Python, Javascript, HTML; ++++ Java; +++++ C++, React.js, Angular, Node.js, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB database, Amazon Web Services cloud, AZURE.
​Successful candidates will have an interest and some experience in big data analysis with supervised or unsupervised techniques. Candidates at both honors, sophomore, junior and senior levels are welcome to apply.
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