Honors, Awards and Nominations

• Senior Personnel (NSF NRT–QISE–AI Award) – $2M, NRT–QISE–AI: Middle Tennessee Interdisciplinary Graduate Research and Training in Quantum Information and AI (2025–2030)
  PI: Wandi Ding; Co-PIs: Abdul-Qayyum Khaliq, Jing Kong, Joshua Phillips, Hanna Terletska
  Senior Personnel: Kritagya Upadhyay and Donglin Wang
  Awarded by National Science Foundation – NSF Research Traineeship (NRT).
• Principal Investigator (PI), MTSU Data Science Institute Seed Grant - $5,000, Awarded by Middle Tennessee State University, 2024.
• Best Poster Award, Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HotSoS) 2023, Awarded by National Security Agency (NSA), 2023.
• Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award, Awarded by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, 2023.
• Best Research Paper Award, Awarded at Fourth International Conference on Blockchain Computing & Applications, 2022.
• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Nomination, Nominated by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, 2022.
• NSA Innovation Award, Awarded by the Center for Academic Excellence and Research (CAE-R), 2021.
• Tuition Benefit Program Award, Awarded by University of North Texas, 2018-2023.
• College of Engineering Department Award, Awarded by College of Engineering, University of North Texas, 2018-2023.