Background.

She completed her PhD from The University of Texas at Austin in 2012.  She worked in National Energetics, Austin Texas as a Laser Scientist from 2012-2016. She led her team in designing and building high power ultrafast laser systems, which included successfully building the front end of a 10 PW laser system for European Union’s Extreme Light Infrastructure Beamlines facility (ELI-Beamlines).  She joined Boise State in 2016 as a research assistant professor and then worked as a tenure track assistant professor from 2019-2022.  

Her current research areas focusses on areas of laser material interaction such as laser sintering for in space manufacturing, designing and employing fiber-optic sensors in extreme environments; mid IR lasers; laser ablation of thin films; 

Dr. Kandadai is a Senior IEEE member and has won CAES and AFRL faculty fellowship