Dr. Wandi Ding is a Professor, M.S. Graduate Advisor, and Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Middle Tennessee State University. She also serves as Associate Director of Education (graduate track) for the QRiSE (Quantum Research, Interdisciplinary Science, and Education) Center (https://quantum.mtsu.edu/). Her interdisciplinary research integrates mathematical modeling, computation, optimization, and data-driven methods to study complex biological and quantum systems.

She is a faculty member in the Computational and Data Sciences (CDS) Ph.D. Program and the Honors College. She also serves as Co-President of the Tennessee Chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS). She has held multiple leadership roles in the MTSU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi.

Bio page at Google Sites

Professional Leadership and Service:

• Associate Chair of Research: Department of Mathematical Sciences.
  
  
• Associate Director of Education (graduate track): QRiSE at MTSU. 
  
  
• Co-president (2021 - present): Association for Women in Science (AWIS) TN Chapter. 
  
  
• Co-Director: SIMIODE EXPO 2023.    SIMIODE (Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations)
  
  
• Lifelong member of Phi Kappa Phi. President (2011-12), vice president (2009-10), and secretary (2008-09, 2022-26),  member-at-large (2026-current) of Phi Kappa Phi at MTSU --- Let the Love of Learning Rule Humanity 
  
  
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Computer Mathematics
  
  
• Editorial Board, PRIMUS
  
  
• President, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Student Chapter, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2004-06.
  
  
• Member of the Murfreesboro Art League (MAL), and she believes in the perfect harmony of math, science, and arts in everyone's daily life. 

MTSU Scholars Directory: https://research.mtsu.edu/directory/

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Research web page at Google Sites

Sponsored Research and Grants

Grants from the National Science Foundation:

1. PI: NSF DGE #2510274: NRT-QISE-AI: Middle Tennessee Interdisciplinary Graduate Research and Training in Quantum Information Science and AI, (Co-PIs: Hanna Terletska, Joshua Phillips, Jing Kong, Abdul-Qayyum Khaliq; Senior Personnel: Donglin Wang and Kritagya Upadhyay), $2,000,000, 2025 --- 2030.

Please see the MTSU NRT funding opportunity to support your graduate studies. 

2. Co-PI: 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.

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

4. Co-PI: 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

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2026:

Wandi Ding, MTSU’s QRISE lands $2M federal grant for quantum, AI research, August 28, 2026. 

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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Sponsored Research and Grants ->

Grants from the National Science Foundation:

1. PI: NSF DGE #2510274: NRT-QISE-AI: Middle Tennessee Interdisciplinary Graduate Research and Training in Quantum Information Science and AI, (Co-PIs: Hanna Terletska, Joshua Phillips, Jing Kong, Abdul-Qayyum Khaliq; Senior Personnel: Donglin Wang and Kritagya Upadhyay), $2,000,000, 2025 --- 2030.

Please see the MTSU NRT funding opportunity to support your graduate studies. 

2. Co-PI: 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.

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

4. Co-PI: 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.

MTSU Distinguished Lecture Fund: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, $3,250.

Travel Grants from Professional Organizations:


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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