Ksusha is Russian-American. She has a Bachelor's in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from The College of New Jersey, and a Master's degree in Theoretical and Computational Methods from the University of Helsinki in Finland. She worked with superconducting qubits at IQM Finland for a year. Now she is working on the Quantum Battery project at the SQD Lab, in collaboration with CSIRO. Her hobbies include birding, singing, bouldering, running, and video games.