Neha Nauman, together with scholar Tooba Aftab, achieved 1st Position at the FYDP Exhibition 2026 held at the CIS Department, NED University. Their award-winning project, "Hardware Acceleration of CRYSTALS-Dilithium for Post-Quantum Cryptography," accelerated key FPGA-based implementations of SHAKE128 and SHAKE256 and enhanced open-source hardware cores for post-quantum cryptography.