Dr. V. Lakshmi Devi
Professor & HOD
BIO
Dr. V Lakshmi Devi, completed her B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Siddharth Institute of Engineering & Technology, Puttur, M.Tech in Electrical Power Engineering from Narayana Engineering College, Nellore, MBA in Human Resource Management from ICFAI University, Tripura and Ph.D in Electrical Power Systems from JNTUA, Ananthapuramu. She is a highly accomplished academic with 15 years of teaching and research experience. She has received several prestigious awards, including the Best Paper Award at an IEEE Conference, Best Teacher Award by Yuvatejam Trust, and the Sakthi Rathan Puraskar award. She holds leadership positions, such as Head of the Department and Head of Training, and has successfully led the EEE department to NBA accreditation. Additionally, she organizes training programs for engineering students and plays a key role in curriculum development as the Chairman of the Board of Studies at SVCE. She received a grant of Rs. 19,01,352/- from NMICPS Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation Foundation (TiHAN-IITH) for a research proposal titled “An Intelligent Battery Energy Management System for Fuel Cell fed Electric Vehicle Application”
TEACHING INTERESTS
- Neural Networks And Fuzzy Systems
- Modern Control Theory
- Flexible AC Transmission Systems
- Optimization & Heuristic search
- Electrical Machines
- Optimization Techniques Through MATLAB
- Electrical Measurements and Instrumentation
- Renewable Energy Sources
- Soft Computing Techniques
- Power system Operation & Control
- Electric Circuits
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Soft Computing Techniques
- Electrical Vehicles
- Battery Management Systems
- Optimization Techniques
- Renewable Energy Sources
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
- SCI/SCIE/ESCI Indexed Journals: 05
- Scopus Indexed Journals: 05
- UGC Journals: 14
- International Conferences: 18
- National Conferences: 02
- Books Published: 05
- Proposals (DST/SERB): 04
- Patents: 04
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Best Paper Award in IEEE Conference – 3rd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Industry 4.0 (C2I4) (pp. 1-5). IEEE, December 2022.
- Best Teacher Award by Yuvatejam Trust on the occasion of Teachers Day, September 2022.
- Sakthi Rathan Puraskar – Awarded by YUVATEJAM Trust on Women’s Day, 2021
- International Young Researcher Award – Awarded for “Qualitative and Quantitative” – International Institute of Organized Research (I2OR) registered MSME 2020-21.
- Best Young Researcher Award – Awarded in the Teaching, Research & Publications field on 24th August 2019 – Prestigious IRDP Awards, Chennai.
- Certificate of Appreciation for organizing “National Conference on Trends in Engineering and Technology- 2k17”, held at SV Colleges in July 2017.
- Certificate of faculty coordination for Chemclave’17-IITM by Wingfotech Pvt. Ltd in SV Colleges.
- Best Paper Award – Presented Paper “A Hybrid Bat search approach for security- constrained unit commitment for 3-unit system”, IC31CT-2015, International conference on communication, control, instrumentation & computational technologies, December 17th, 2015 at RLJIT, Bangalore.
- Best Paper Award – Presented Paper “Novel Approach For Minimal Injected Harmonics At Distribution Level-SVC” – International Conference On Computer Science And Informatics (ICCSI-2011) At Bhubaneswar Organized by IRNET.
- Ratified as Assistant Professor – JNTUA, Ananthapuramu – 2011.
- NPTEL Online Course completed on “Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering”- ELITE, 2018 for the 12-week course (JUL-OCT-2018).
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
- Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from JNTUA, Ananthapuramu
- MBA in Human Resource Management from ICFAI University, Tripura
- M.Tech in Electrical Power Engineering from Narayana Engineering College, JNTUA
- B.Tech in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Siddharth Institute of Engineering & Technology, JNTUA
