Dr Seetha Lakshmi is an Associate Professor and Assistant Head,/ALC (Tamil) of the Asian Languages and Cultures Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. Appointed as a trainer in 1997, she has led in the teaching and research, primarily on Standard Spoken Tamil, Curriculum Review and Innovative Pedagogy at NIE.

Her earlier stints were at Tamil Murasu Newspaper as the Sub-Editor (1991-1992) and as Teacher for Tamil language at Mei Chin Secondary School (1993-1997). Dr Seetha was the Coordinator of the Tamil Studies at the Special Training programme (Mother Tongue) in 1997-1999; Head of Tamil Language and Culture Division and Assistant Head, ALC (Tamil) at the Asian Languages and Cultures Academic Group between 2002-July 2007. She is currently the Programme Leader for Practicum, Timetable, Diploma, Degree and Higher Degree at divisional level (Tamil Language). She also provides counselling service to trainee teachers, especially female trainees.
Dr Seetha served as a Visiting Scholar at the Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA., (01 September 2015 - 30 September 2015), San Jose State University, California, USA., (01 October 2015 - 31 October 2015) and University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (11 November 2015 - 10 December 2015) as part of her Academic Leave.
Dr Seetha, has successfully led five educational research projects as the Principal Investigator. She also involved in nearly five projects as Co-Principal Investigator and three projects as Collaborator with other academic researchers. She has published her research papers in nearly 40 conference proceedings and her research articles in national and international research journals.

To-date, Dr Seetha has sole authored nearly 15 books and monographs including three creative literary and translated books. She has delivered keynote / special / plenary / valedictorian addresses at more than 20 conferences held locally and internationally; she has presented in nearly 60 conference and seminar papers locally and in 14 other countries.

Dr Seetha Lakshmi has been providing consultancy to Government and Private organisations on Tamil Language, Tamil Curriculum, Tamil Pedagogy and translation in Singapore and overseas. Dr Seetha has served as the advisor of the Tamil Language Society (2002-2007), National Institute of Education and initiated the highly recognised Inter-School Tamil Drama Competition, ‘Chinnajchiru maedai’ on developing Spoken Tamil among the 10-year-old Tamil Language students in Primary schools.

She has supervised as Main / Co Supervisor for one MA (Visual & Performing Arts, 2008), Ten MEd (course work in Tamil Language) students and currently supervising two PhD students. She has received many awards for her Teaching, Research and Volunteer Services in Tamil Language, Tamil Pedagogy and Academic Research.