Apart from her regular teaching activity, she has guided 5 Ph.D’s, 15 M.Tech’s and several B.Tech projects. Presently she is guiding 07 Ph.D’s and is actively involved in research. Dr.S.Vidyavathi has chaired  various technical sessions in many international conferences held in India and Abroad. She has about 25 research publications in reputed International and National Journals and about 10 in International and National Conferences.

               Her Areas of research interests include Watershed Modelling, Applications of RS&GIS in Civil Engineering and allied areas, Optimization Techniques with applications in Civil Engineering, Distributed Data Mining, Heterogeneous Data Integration in GIS/Data Migration for GIS, Waste Water Treatment, Effective Agricultural Management Practices and GIS Applications. She is a life member of professional bodies namely  Indian Society for Hydraulics, Indian Association of Hydrologists and Institution of Engineers.

                Apart from her teaching and research activities, Dr.S.Vidyavathi served JNTUH  in various capacities as Officer in Charge at Institute of Science and Technology Examination Section, JNTUH,  Member Board of Studies for M.Tech Spatial Information Technology programmes at JNTUH, Convenor of various fact finding committees and Staff Selection Committee Member to several affiliated colleges of JNTUH.