Kristina Monakhova , Ph.D.

Assistant Professor (starting Fall 2024)
Department of Computer Science
Cornell University

I am an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell. Until then, I am a postdoctoral fellow at MIT working with Sixian You and George Barbastathis, and supported by the MIT Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineering Excellence. I work on co-designing optics and algorithms to create better, smaller, and more capable cameras and microscopes.

I obtained my PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley with Laura Waller. During my PhD, I was affiliated with the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab and was supported by the NSF GRFP fellowship. My PhD dissertation was on Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Computational Imaging.

For Cornell related topics, feel free to email me at monakhova[at]cornell.edu. For MIT related topics, feel free to email me at monakho[at]mit.edu

news

Apr 2024	Kristina is a poster and demo chair for ICCP in Lausanne, Switzerland this year! Submit your work to our Call for Posters, Demos, and Outreach by May 10!
Apr 2024	Kristina is co-organizing the CVPR Computational Cameras and Displays Workshop in Seattle this June! Come check out our amazing speaker line-up, and our posters & spotlights!
Mar 2024	Cassandra won a Best Paper Award at SPIE Photonics West for her work on Leveraging Uncertainty Quantification for Adaptive Multiphoton Microscopy!

selected publications

2022

Dancing under the stars: video denoising in starlight

Kristina Monakhova, Stephan R Richter, Laura Waller, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022

Bib PDF Code Website

@inproceedings{monakhova2022dancing,
  title = {Dancing under the stars: video denoising in starlight},
  author = {Monakhova, Kristina and Richter, Stephan R and Waller, Laura and Koltun, Vladlen},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages = {16241--16251},
  year = {2022},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFvQs2j9RMw},
}

2020

Spectral DiffuserCam: lensless snapshot hyperspectral imaging with a spectral filter array

Kristina Monakhova, Kyrollos Yanny, Neerja Aggarwal, and 1 more author

Optica, 2020

Bib PDF Code Website

@article{monakhova2020spectral,
  title = {Spectral DiffuserCam: lensless snapshot hyperspectral imaging with a spectral filter array},
  author = {Monakhova, Kristina and Yanny, Kyrollos and Aggarwal, Neerja and Waller, Laura},
  journal = {Optica},
  volume = {7},
  number = {10},
  pages = {1298--1307},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {Optica Publishing Group},
  group = {journal},
}

2019

Learned reconstructions for practical mask-based lensless imaging

Kristina Monakhova, Joshua Yurtsever, Grace Kuo, and 3 more authors

Optics express, 2019

Bib PDF Code Website

@article{monakhova2019learned,
  title = {Learned reconstructions for practical mask-based lensless imaging},
  author = {Monakhova, Kristina and Yurtsever, Joshua and Kuo, Grace and Antipa, Nick and Yanny, Kyrollos and Waller, Laura},
  journal = {Optics express},
  volume = {27},
  number = {20},
  pages = {28075--28090},
  year = {2019},
  publisher = {Optica Publishing Group},
}