Presidential Fellows

KWAME OWUSU-DAAKU-2013 Scholarmajor & degree: Geography, Ph.D.hometown: Kumasi, Ghanacontact: owusudaaku.kn@gmail.comI have a bachelor’s in development planning from Kwame NkrumahUniversity of Science and Technology in Ghana and a master’s in urbanand regional planning from the University of Iowa. I am interestedin climate change and development: particularly how climate changeaffects the livelihoods of people and the strategies the affected personsemploy to adapt to climate change. I chose USC because of myadvisor’s research focus, which includes my home country of Ghana.I am excited to work in an academic program that allows its students to explore and engage ininterdisciplinary work and look forward to discovering and becoming part of the University of SouthCarolina community with my wonderful wife Ama.IVAN PANCHENKO-2012 Scholarmajor & degree: Computer Science & Engineering, Ph.D.hometown: Lviv, Ukrainecontact: panchenk@email.sc.eduHaving become familiar with computer programming and appliedmathematics in the lyceum, I was admitted to one of the oldest technicalschools in Ukraine, National University “Lviv Polytechnic,”andreceived a state fellowship for the duration of my studies. After that Iworked as a research assistant at the Research Institute of Mechanicsof M. Lomonosov Moscow State University. In the General MechanicsLab I helped create an Exoskeleton—a system of robotic human lower limbs that can multiplycarriers’ dynamical force. All in all, my research interests lie primarily in microprocessor architecture,reconfigurable systems, hardware description languages, and embedded systems.29