Akshita is currently working in Cognitive Science Lab, IIIT-Hyderabad as a Research Assistant on VR-Feel Project. As part of this project, she is looking into effects of emotional VR stimuli in second person perspective scenario. She has done her MS by Research from CSL, IIIT-Hyderabad and her masters project looked into interaction of emotional cues presented through different modalities - visual, audio and haptic. Her research interests lie in the field of affective computing, computational neuroscience and VR research.