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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).
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