Wenting Zheng was awarded the prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship for her work on  security and distributed systems. Wenting is actively studying new methods for scalable secure analytics, multi-party computation for machine learning, and distributed zero knowledge proofs.  The IBM Ph.D. fellowship is an “intensely competitive worldwide program that honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study.” Only 50 fellowships are awarded worldwide annually.