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Professor A. Kavitha serves as a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Anna University, College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai, within the Engineering faculty. She joined the department in 2003 as a Lecturer and has progressed through various roles: Assistant Professor Senior Grade from 2008 to 2012, Assistant Professor Selection Grade from 2012 to 2015, Associate Professor from 2015 to 2018, and Professor since 2018. Her academic qualifications include a Ph.D. from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University in 2010, an M.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2002, and a B.E. from Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai in 1996. She is a Life Member of the Indian Society for Technical Education since 2004 and has supervised three Ph.D. theses completed between 2021 and 2023.

Prof. Kavitha's research specialization lies in nonlinear dynamics in power electronics circuits. She has produced 49 publications, comprising 33 journal articles and 16 conference proceedings, achieving an h-index of 12 and 409 citations according to Scopus. Notable publications include "Experimental Verification of Hopf Bifurcation in DC-DC Luo Converter" with G. Uma in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (2008), "Effect of rotor geometry on peak and average torque of external-rotor synchronous reluctance motor in comparison with switched reluctance motor for low-speed direct-drive" with M.A. Raj in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (2017), "Resonant parametric perturbation method to control chaos in current mode controlled dc-dc buck-boost converter" with G. Uma in Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology (2010), and "Analysis and control of chaos in SEPIC DC-DC converter using sliding mode control" with G. Indira and G. Uma at the 2008 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting. She has earned recognitions such as the Best Paper Award at ICBDM, Noorul Islam University (2013), Best Project Award from the Centre for Technology Development and Transfer, Anna University (2011), and Best Paper Award at the National Conference on Recent Trends in Power Electronics and Power Systems, RMK Engineering College (2011).