Akshata Krishnamurthy (Born December 27, 1990) is an Indian space systems engineer working as Principal Investigator and Science Phase Lead at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

[6][7] Her PhD research focused on instrument calibration and performance improvement for space-based telescope missions for exoplanet detection.

[11] Krishnamurthy interned at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as part of the ASTERIA mission while working on her PhD.

[14] She also started as a systems engineer on the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission[15] and later became the Science Phase Lead.

[3] She previously served as an instrument engineer on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and as a co-investigator on ASTERIA missions.