Tooba Aftab, along with fellow scholar Neha Nauman, secured 1st Position at the FYDP Exhibition 2026 held at the CIS Department, NED University. Their project, "Hardware Acceleration of CRYSTALS-Dilithium for Post-Quantum Cryptography," focused on accelerating critical components of the CRYSTALS-Dilithium post-quantum cryptography algorithm on FPGA, including SHAKE128 and SHAKE256, while analyzing and improving open-source hardware cores