Pawar is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) 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. from Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA. He’s also an co-founder of a Connecticut based AI company, ChestAi; Georgia Research Consulting (GRC), Research & Training in STEM Studies, Atlanta, USA, and a research affiliate at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.  His research is focused on big data (next-generation sequencing, microarrays, X-ray crystallography etc.) analysis with machine learning techniques (Neural networks, SVM’s, Restricted boltzmann machines, Clustering algorithms etc.).