Kavitha M completed her B.Tech in Civil Engineering from NIT, Calicut in the year 2009. She did her M.Tech in Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and graduated from there in 2012. She is currently pursuing her PhD from CUSAT.

She joined Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology in 2012 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. She has handled many undergraduate subjects especially in the domain of water resources engineering. She has also handled labs like Fluid Mechanics Lab, Material Testing Lab, Surveying Lab and Civil Engineering Drafting Lab for B.Tech Civil students.

Her area of academic interests lie in Open Channel Flow and Groundwater Hydraulics.

She is a lifetime member of the Indian Concrete Institute (ICI).