Laxima Niure Kandel

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida

Phone: (386)-226-6323

Email: niurekal@erau.edu

Office: Lehman 354

Biography

Dr. Niure Kandel is an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Daytona Beach, Florida. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ in 2020 where she was awarded the outstanding dissertation award for her doctoral work. Her research interests include Anomaly and Fault Detection Using ML/AI, UAV Security (Physical Layer Based Approach), GPS Spoofing Mitigation, Information Security and WiFi Localization and Sensing.

Latest News

May 2025: 🏆🥂 Congratulations Raju for passing the PhD proposal defense!

Apr 2025: 🏆 Dr. Kandel received 2025 College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award!

Apr 2025: 🥂 Congratulations Kayla and Bhawana for passing PhD qualifying exam!

Apr 2025: 🏆Congratulations Justin Villa for winning 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF Grant)!

Apr 2025: Dr. Kandel delivered a presentation at the CAE Symposium titled "GPS Spoofing: Challenges, Mitigation Strategies, and Training Through Real Scenarios."

Mar 2025: 🎗️ Our paper titled "Dueling Deep Q-Learning for Intrusion Detection " received Best Paper Award at IEEE SoutheastCon 2025 (link)

Feb 2025: 👨‍🏫 Our paper titled "Dueling Deep Q-Learning for Intrusion Detection " has been accepted for publication in IEEE SoutheastCon 2025 (https://ieeesoutheastcon.org/technical-program/ ). Congratulations Logan, Matthew and Sirio!

Feb 2025: 👨‍🏫 Our paper titled "Leveraging Tree-Based Machine Learning and Explainable AI for UAV GPS Spoofing Detection " has been accepted for publication in IEEE SoutheastCon 2025 (https://ieeesoutheastcon.org/virtual-sessions/). Congratulations Bhawana!

Jan 2025: Dr. Kandel is the Lab director for Cybersecurity and Assured System Engineering (CyBASE) Laboratory!🔗Link

Jan 2025: Dr. Kandel is the CAE-CD POS for the Daytona Beach Campus.

Nov 2024: 👨‍🏫 Our paper titled "Radio Frequency Fingerprinting With Siamese Network" has been accepted for publication in ICNC 2025 (http://www.conf-icnc.org/2025/ ). Congratulations Raju!

Nov 2024:🏆 Dr. Kandel receives COE-BCAAS Research Stimulus Program funding ($19,564) to study "GPS Spoofing and Jamming Attacks on UAVs with Low-Cost SDRs"

Nov 2024: 👨‍🏫 Our paper titled "Enhancing Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks Through Federated Learning" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access Journal! Congratulations Raju!

October 2024: Dr. Kandel served as a panelist at the ERAU Aviation Cybersecurity Panel, discussing ''The Role of Cybersecurity in Aviation."

September 2024: 👨‍🏫 Our paper titled "GPS Spoofing Detection with a Random Forest Multiclass Classifier" has been accepted for publication in MILCOM 2024! Congratulations Bhawana! 🔗Link

August 2024: Dr. Kandel serves as the mentor for WiCyS 2024 Mentoring Program.

March 2024: Dr. Kandel serves as the session chair for SoutheastCon 2024 Virtual Conference.

March 2024: 👨‍🏫 Our paper titled "Performance evaluation of routing protocols for UAV-assisted post disaster communication networks" has been accepted for publication in IEEESoutheastCon 2024! Congratulations Prachi! 🔗Link

February 2024: Dr. Kandel serves as the panelist for the ICAO-Industry Consultative Forum (ICF), Fourth meeting ( 5 and 6 February 2024)

February 2024: 🏆 Dr. Kandel is the PI for NSF project "Experiential 'Accessible Learning Labs' for Promoting Inclusive Software Development ". This is a collaborative project with Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). 🔗Link

February 2024: 2024 summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site "Cybersecurity Research of UAVs" is now accepting applications. 🔗Link

February 2024: Dr. Kandel serves as the Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for SoutheastCon 2024.

October 2023: Dr. Kandel serves as the Program Committee (PC) member for WiCyS 2024.

October 2023: Dr. Kandel serves as the panelist for N2Women Meeting "Academia or Industry: How Should Female Researchers Navigate Their Career Choices"?

July 2023: Dr. Kandel serves as the TPC member for IEEE ICC'24

June 2023: Dr. Kandel is appointed as lab director for Cybersecurity Engineering Laboratory!🔗Link

May 2023: Dr. Kandel serves as a TPC member for LCN 2023!🔗Link

April 2023: Dr. Kandel in the recent news coverage! 🗞️Link

April 2023: Raju passed the PhD Qualifying Exam! Congratulations, Raju! 🍾

February 2023: 🏆Dr. Kandel awarded NSF REU grant! If you are undergraduate student interested in summer 2023 research Apply here.

November 2022: Dr. Kandel is CyBASE associate director !

August 2022: Welcome to our new lab member, Raju Dhakal. Raju is a PhD student working on UAV security using Physical Layer approach

July 2022: Dr. Kandel serves as a TPC member for IEEE ICC'23 - SAC -03 EH Track

July 31st -August 4th, 2022: Dr. Kandel finished with intense 1-week Cybersecurity summer camp for students ages 14-18. Students enjoyed creating viruses and password hacking!

June 2022: Dr. Kandel is now a collaborator with Center of Aerospace Resilience (CAR)!

May 2022: Dr. Kandel serves as NSF panelist

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