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Nirmala Kandadai is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ State University. She completed her Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin in 2012 studying the interaction of high-intensity laser with molecular gas clusters. She was a laser scientist at National Energetics and led her team in designing and building high-power ultrafast laser systems, including the front end of a 10 PW laser system for the European Union’s Extreme Light Infrastructure Beamlines facility (ELI-Beamlines). She was in Boise as a research assistant professor in 2016 and as a tenure-track assistant professor since 2019.

Kandadai started the IEEE WIE Boise section in 2020 and was the chair of the IEEE WIE Boise section from 2020 - 2022. She was awarded Idaho accomplished under 40 award in 2022 for her work in promoting young girls and women in STEM.

She moved to ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ State in 2022 as an assistant professor. At ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ State, she is the director of the Fiber Optics Laser and Integrated Research Lab. Her current research work includes laser-matter interactions, sensors for extreme environments, infrared thermography, thermal conductivity, laser sintering, and plasma modeling. She is currently an IEEE senior member.