Akshika Wijesundara has just joined the STRETCH project as a PhD student where his research will focus on some of the instrumentation of participant homes. Akshika is a graduate from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His research interests centre around Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Machine Learning and Computer Vision. Akshika developed his interest on HCI while he was interning at Augmented Human Lab in Singapore University of Technology and Design as a research engineering intern. 
 
Apart from his academic studies he founded Sustainable Education Foundation with the vision to make quality free education for everyone which is a volunteer run foundation based in Sri Lanka. He has also been a Google Student Ambassador for Sri Lanka acting as the liason between Google and Sri Lanka while he was in the University.