Prof. Chandra's research interests are in developing physical and computational models for the performance of networked systems. This research seeks to identify and model causality between features of application, transport and physical layers with the objective of better quantifying the queueing and error performance observed at end systems and network nodes. Her research group is currently investigating problems on dynamic channel allocation for wireless systems, performance models for RF spectrum sharing between licensed and unlicensed sources, Internet traffic characterization, design of hybrid free-space optical and RF networks and methods for computing and characterizing impulse response of indoor wireless channels. Prof. Chandra has also worked in the fields of physical acoustics. In this research, she has proposed computational models for strong scattering of ultrasonic waves. These models apply Pade approximants to extend the region of convergence of classical Born approximation based techniques. 

She teaches graduate courses on Probability and Random Processes (16.584), Applied Stochastic Estimation (16.687), Stochastic Models Performance of Wireless Networks (16.618), Modeling and Simulation of Communication Networks (16.617), Stochastic Models, Linear Systems, (16.509). Undergraduate courses include Introduction to ECE (16.100) Circuit Theory I and II (16.201, 16.202) and Signals and Systems (16.362). 

Prior to joining UMass Lowell, she was a senior member of technical staff at AT&T Laboratories ('96-'98) and member of technical staff at Bell Laboratories ('94-'96) in the Teletraffic and System Performance Department (Holmdel, NJ). 

Prof. Chandra obtained the Eng.D (1992) and MS (Computer Engineering, 1987) degrees from University of Massachusetts Lowell and BSEE (1985) from Bangalore University, India. 

She is a Senior Member of IEEE and is a recipient of the NSF Career Award (1998), Francis Cabot Lowell Young Alumni Award in Engineering (1998) and the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer (Honorable Mention) Award (1996).