Aayushi is a post-graduate of Conflict Analysis and Peace Building from the Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia. Her focus areas have been arms control and disarmament along with understanding the interactions of gender, conflict and peace. She is also keen on working towards an intersection of gender and international security.

Aayushi has been a Research Fellow at the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the Center for Energy and Security Studies (CENESS). Currently, she is working as a Programme Associate at the Middle East Treaty Organisation, heading the Humanitarian Initiative to understand the humanitarian consequences of the usage of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in the Middle East. She is also a Research Associate with Global Order, a New Delhi-based foreign policy think tank researching comprehensively to understand international geopolitics from an Indian vantage point.