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

Jun 2023	Kristina will be joining Cornell’s Computer Sciences Department in Fall 2024 as an assistant professor!
May 2023	Kristina will be giving invited talks at Optica’s Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, SPIE Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence Conference, and the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers this summer and fall!
Sep 2022	Kristina started her postdoc at MIT, supported by the MIT Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineering Excellence!

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},
}