Hailing from Aurangabad, Rushikesh graduated with a department rank 1 from BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus with a B.E. Computer Science and M.Sc. Biological Sciences. He further studied and completed his undergrad thesis at Harvard University in USA. His research at Harvard was fully funded with various scholarships like Khorana Scholarship. He received 80% fee waiver scholarship at BITS Pilani for his whole degree for being in the top performing 3% of the eligible students.

Rushikesh secured First Rank in School in Maths & Science Olympiad and MTSE in the year 2013, 14 & 15.

He secured multiple graduate program admissions from Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is now pursuing a graduate program in Computer Vision at CMU. He secured various scholarships like JN TATA, KC Mahindra, etc. to pursue his graduate studies. He has also been selected for various prestigious research programs at Hiroshima University (Japan), CMMRS (Germany), etc. He has also worked as a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, Applied Scientist at Amazon, and part-time researcher at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and CEERI. He has also published many of his research work at top journals/conferences.