Dr. Laxima 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  WiFi localization and sensing, UAV security, information security and cybersecurity in general.

Raju Dhakal is a Ph.D. student in the   Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Daytona Beach, Florida. He received his master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand in 2018. He has completed his bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Nepal Engineering College, Nepal in 2014. He has worked as a teaching faculty in different colleges in Nepal for more than five years. His research interests include Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN), Ad-Hoc networks, and physical layer security of UAV networks.

Start: Fall 2022

Jeremiah Web is I am currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science along with an accelerated Master's in Cybersecurity Engineering. During the recent summer, I interned at Amazon Web Services as a Solutions Architect. I contributed to the creation of HIPAA compliant data pipelines that supported Amazon's machine learning models. Some of my professional goals are becoming a certified ethical hacker and working as a cloud security engineer.  

Start: Fall 2024 (Graduated Spring 2024)

Prachi Choudhary is pursuing M.S. in Software Engineering. Before embarking on her M.S. degree, she gained valuable experience by working as a Software Developer at Siemens Healthiness for over three years. Presently, she holds the role of a Teaching Assistant and is actively engaged in research focused on anomaly and fault detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs).

Start: Summer 2023 (Graduate Fall 2024)