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A three-dimensional projection scintillator tracker called SuperFGD is one of the main components of the near detector upgrade of the T2K experiment. With nanosecond timing resolution and fine granularity, SuperFGD will provide essential data for studying neutrino interactions. A SuperFGD prototype detector was exposed to a neutron beam at Los Alamos National Laboratory to characterize its response to neutron-induced interactions. Understanding these processes will provide valuable information for future analyses of neutrino interactions that involves a neutron in the final state in the T2K SuperFGD near detector. This poster presents preliminary results on the development of novel particle identification (PID) techniques to separate neutron-induced proton and pion events using the SuperFGD prototype detector. The implementation of this PID will support forthcoming measurements of neutron-induced proton and pion production on scintillator using the neutron interaction data collected with the SuperFGD prototype detector.