Kavitha Arunachalam (S'03–M'08) received the Bachelors’ degree in electronics and communications engineering from the College of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, East Lansing, in 2007. She is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Hyperthermia Physics Division, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Her current research interests include applied electromagnetics and biomedical engineering in the areas of hyperthermia physics, thermometry, microwave radiometry, inverse problem, and digital signal and image processing.