Dr. Ding researches mathematical biology, optimal control, computational biology, mathematical modeling, ordinary and partial differential equations, difference equations, and hybrid systems, with applications to population dynamics, disease modeling and control, natural resource management, and systems biology. She is also interested in machine learning / deep learning, AI ethics, quantum computing, quantum biology, and improving undergraduate STEM education through research experiences.

Her research focuses on understanding the spatial and temporal patterns that arise in dynamic biological systems and, when possible, finding the best way to control the system.

Dr. Ding collaborates with others to encourage/promote girls & women in STEM. 

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Bio page

• Faculty for Computational and Data Sciences Ph.D. Program and Honors Faculty.
• M.S. Graduate Advisor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences.
• Leadership team to establish MTSU’s Quantum Information and Materials Center (QIMC) and member of the interdisciplinary team of the MTSU Quantum Initiative. 
• Co-president: Association for Women in Sciences (AWIS) Tennessee Chapter.
• President (2011-12), vice president (2009-10), and secretary (2008-09, 2022-26) of Phi Kappa Phi at MTSU.

Services

• Program Committee: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2024 Fall Symposium on Machine Intelligence for Equitable Global Health (MI4EGH), Arlington, Virginia, November 7-9, 2024. 
• Co-organizer: A satellite session “Fairness in Machine Intelligence for Global Health (FairMI4GH)” of the 2023 annual meeting of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), April 3rd, 2023. (with Hong Qin and Jude Kong).                              YouTube
• Organizing Committee for Shanks Workshop on Advances in Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, March 17-19, 2023.
• Co-Director: Systematic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations (SIMIODE) EXPO 2023.

Editorial Positions

• Associate Editor: International Journal of Computer Mathematics, 2022 – present. 
• Board of Editors: PRIMUS, 2023 -- present
• Guest editor of special issues for Journals of
  Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering (2020-22),
  Natural Resource Modeling (2017-18),
  and Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization (2024-25).  
• Editor: Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) Digest, 2013 - 2019. 
• Editor: American Research Journal of Mathematics, 2017 - present.
• Editor: International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 2014 - 2018.
  
  

Professional Memberships

• The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• Association for Women in Science (AWIS) (Co-President of AWIS TN Chapter)
• Lifetime Member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (ΦκΦ)
• Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)
• Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
• Resource Modeling Association (RMA)
  
  
• Member of the Canadian Center for Disease Modeling (CCDM) global network
• Member of the MODELS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE AGENT STUDY (MIDAS)
  
  
• Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) (2004-2023)
• American Mathematical Society (AMS) (2007-2019)
• American Association of University Professors (AAUP) (2010-2012)
• Member of the Murfreesboro Art League (MAL), and she believes in the perfect harmony of math, science, and arts in everyone's daily life. 

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Distinguished Research Award, College of Basic and Applied Science, MTSU, 2019.

Professional Leadership:

• Co-president (2021 - present) of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) TN Chapter. 
  
  
• Co-Director: SIMIODE EXPO 2023.    SIMIODE (Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations)
  
  
• President (2011-12), vice president (2009-10), and secretary (2008-09, 2022-26) of Phi Kappa Phi at MTSU --- Let the Love of Learning Rule Humanity 
  
  
• President, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Chapter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2004-06.

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2024:

Wandi Ding, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro TN USA, posted comments about the joy her students had in learning to model logistic growth with m&m pieces using the  1-017-DiseaseSpread-ModelingScenario. Check it out and please leave Comments on your use of SIMIODE materials for others to see and learn. September, 2024.

Summer not slowing MTSU research: students, faculty in national program, June 7, 2024. 

Invited talk by Dr. Wandi Ding on Mathematical Biology: “Optimal Control and Deep Learning for Biological Applications”, April 5, 2024.

MTSU students magnify their science research through ‘AMPLIFY’ program, March 21, 2024.

2023:

The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2023 Satellite Session 13: Fairness in Machine Intelligence for Global Health

2022: 

AWIS (Association for Women in Science), November 7, 2022.

MurfreesboroVOICE, August 4, 2022.

WGNSRADIO.COM, August 3, 2022.

MTSU faculty members mentor undergrads through research experiences, August 2, 2022.

Wandi Ding. Malaria Modelling, an optimal control problem. Research Outreach, May 17, 2022. Medium, May 26, 2022.

On Facebook: 2022                On Twitter: 2022

2021: MTSU hosts prestigious National Science Foundation grant undergrad research cohorts [+VIDEO]

2017: MurfreesboroVOICE

2014: MTSU celebrates national grant to ADVANCE women in STEM

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Grants from the National Science Foundation:

1. NSF DMS #2234176: Workshop on Advances in Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, (PI: X. Zhao, co-PIs: M. Horn, W. Ding, P. Hinow and X. Huo), $27,000, 03/01/2023 --- 02/29/2024.

2. NSF DMS #1757493: REU Site: Computational Modeling and Simulation in Applied Sciences
    (PI: W. Ding, co-PIs: R. Leander, W. Robertson, and J. Phillips), $241,470, 2018-2023.

3. NSF ADVANCE IT-Catalyst (NSF HRD #1409638):  A Catalyst to ADVANCE the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic STEM Careers at Middle Tennessee State University (PI: B. Bartel, Co-PIs: J. Iriarte-Gross, W. Ding, J. Eller and K. Petersen), $195,002.00, 2014 - 2018.  MTSU ADVANCE Web Page

Grants from MTSU: 

1. MTSU NIA: Non-Instructional Assignment Grant (Sabbatical leave), Fall 2020.
2. MTSU LT&ITC Faculty Learning Community (FLC): Mid-Career Faculty Development Program, (with D. Raffo, G. Webber, R. Henderson, R. Otter and T. Brinthaupt), $7,500, 2014.
3. MTSU Instructional Technologies Innovation Grant (ITI) (with Z. Sinkala and R. Leander), $5,892, 2014.
4. MTSU Instructional Evaluation and Development Grant (IED), $750, 2011.
   To design and implement of a pilot program training for undergraduates in biological and mathematical sciences.
5. Faculty Research and Creative Activities (FRCAC), MTSU, August 2009- May 2010, $5,000.
   Optimal Control Applied to Native-Invasive Population Dynamics via a PDE Model.
6. NSF STEP (Stepping Up Undergraduate Research) Summer Research, MTSU, June-July 2009, $17,500.
   Mathematical Modeling and Control of Populations: Application in Biological Pest Control.
7. Faculty Research and Creative Activities (FRCAC), MTSU, August 2008- May 2009, $6,300.
   Optimal Harvesting of Fish Populations with Age Structure.
8. MTSU Distinguished Lecture Fund: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, $3,250.
   
   Travel Grants:
   
   1. SIAM Quantum Intersections Convening- Integrating Mathematical Scientists into Quantum Research,  Tysons, Virginia, October 7-9, 2024. 
   2. Moffitt Cancer Center Integrated Mathematical Oncology (IMO) Travel Awards, IMO Workshop 9: Tumor Board Evolution, Nov. 3-8, 2019.
   3. Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) grant to support our special session in the AMS Southeastern Spring Sectional Meeting (March 27-29, 2015), $2,000, 2014.
   4. Society of Mathematical Biology (SMB) Travel grant, $750, 2011.
   5. SIAM-NSF Postdoc/Early Career Travel Award, $885, 2010.
   6. AWM-NSF Travel Grants for Women Researchers, $1,488, 2009.

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