Dr. Wandi Ding 

Dr. Wandi Ding

Professor, M.S. Graduate Program advisor, and Associate Chair of Research in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). 

Faculty for the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Computational and Data Science Program.

Honors College. 

Member of the interdisciplinary team of the MTSU Quantum Initiative. Associate Director of Education (graduate track) for the QRiSE (Quantum Research, Interdisciplinary Science, and Education) Center at MTSU. 

Active SIMIODE (Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations) user and educator. 

Co-president of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Tennessee Chapter (2021-- present). 

Life-long Phi Kappa Phi member. President (2011-12), vice president (2009-10), and secretary (2008-09, 2022-26), at-large member (2026-current) of Phi Kappa Phi at MTSU.

Applied mathematics and computational science, with emphasis on optimal control, mathematical biology, scientific machine learning, and emerging applications in quantum information science and quantum biology. 

Please see Research for details.

My webpages at MTSU:  https://w1.mtsu.edu/faculty/wandi-ding (summary) and webpage at Google Sites: https://sites.google.com/view/wding/home (comprehensive) 

Apply here for the 2026 National Science Foundation National Research Traineeship (NRT) hosted by Middle Tennessee State University 

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

Contact

wding AT mtsu.edu

MTSU Box 34
1301 E. Main Street,
Murfreesboro, TN, 37132
Office: KOM 122K
Phone: (615) 494-8936
Fax: (615) 898-5422