Received Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics from Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli. She completed her Master of Technology (Electric Drives and Control) in Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry, India. She received the Gold Medal from Pondicherry University for the M. Tech course. She received her Ph. D from Pondicherry University. She is currently working as an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering, at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India. She has published many papers in reputed journals and conferences. She is one of the Board of Studies member in Pondicherry Engineering College. Her research areas include PV based systems, Neural Networks, Induction motor drives, Reliability analysis of multilevel inverters, and Electrical Vehicles. Email: chitra.a@vit.ac.in chitravenkat_pec@yahoo.co.in.