Kiranmayi Raparthi is an Architect and Urban planner. She earned her doctorate degree in Urban Planning and Public Policy from The University of Texas at Arlington, U.S.A. 

Currently she is working as an Assistamt Professor in the Department of Planning, School of Architecture and Planning (SAP) campus, Anna University, Chennai.

Prior to joining Anna University, She worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Indian Insitute of Technology, Hyderabad towards the "Cool Infrastructures", a UK-ESRC funded 3-year project. Cool Infrastructures seeks to identify what knowledges and strategies people in ‘off-grid’ communities, such as informal settlements, use to keep cool in hot conditions, and how local innovations and approaches might be supported, scaled up and shared.

Her research focuses on an interdisciplinary understanding of the human dimensions of environmental/climate change with the aim to inform policy and action. Her specific reserach themes are: 

Her doctoral research examined discourses of climate change policy and was aimed towards assessing the impact of urban planning policies on carbon-dioxide emissions through empirical evidences and examined the significance of urban planning policies as an effective tool in climate change mitigation. 

Kiranmayi has more than six years of research and teaching experience in various reputed universities in India and U.S.A. She has taught both undergraduate and postgraduate students of architecture and planning. Both in her teaching and research, she consistently strives for opportunities that allow her to explore sustainable and ecological approaches which offer new ways of enhancing Urban Resilience and Sustainable Communities.