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Dr. Wandi Ding is a professor and an M.S. Graduate Program advisor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Middle Tennessee State University. She serves as faculty for the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Computational and Data Science program, as well as the Honors College. She is a member of the interdisciplinary team of the MTSU Quantum Initiative. She serves as the Associate Director of Education for the QRiSE (Quantum Research, Interdisciplinary Science, and Education) Center at MTSU. She is an active learner and user of SIMIODE (Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations), which is a Community of Practice dedicated to using modeling to teach differential equations. She works together with Dr. Judith Iriarte-Gross to serve as co-president for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Tennessee Chapter (2021-present). She serves as secretary of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi at MTSU.

Education

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville (UTK), 2006
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Ocean University of China, 2001
B.S. in Mathematics Education, Qingdao University, China, 1998.

Research

Dr. Ding's research interests include mathematical biology, computational biology, optimal control, 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 applied to biological applications and healthcare, quantum computing, quantum biology, and AI ethics. Please see Research for details.

Dr. Ding finished her Post Doctoral Research with Drs. Suzanne Lenhart and Louis Gross on optimal control of spatial ecology and natural resource management. See the Grid Computing Project for Ecological Modeling and Spatial Control.

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Associate Director of Education: QRiSE (Quantum Research, Interdisciplinary Science, and Education) Center at MTSU
Co-Director for SIMIODE EXPO 2023, 10-12 February 2023. (SIMIODE: Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations)
Co-president (2021 - present) for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) TN Chapter.
Distinguished Research Award, College of Basic and Applied Science, MTSU, 2019.
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

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.

2, Co-PI: NSF DMS #2234176: Shanks Workshop on Advances in Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, (PI: X. Zhao, co-PIs: M. Horn, W. Ding, P. Hinow and X. Huo), $27,000, 2023 -24.

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. MTSU News 08/02/21, MTSU News 08/07/22 Malaria Modelling, an optimal control problem. Research Outreach, May 17, 2022.
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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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