Ronak Kosti's doctoral thesis is focused on affective computing. Specifically, understanding how different scene contexts affect the perception of emotion of people (More details in the Projects section). He obtained his Masters in Machine Intelligence from DA-IICT (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology) in 2014. His master's research was based on depth estimation from single image using Artificial Neural Networks.

His main areas of research focus on scene understanding, affective computing and machine learning.