Kristina Monakhova

Kristina Monakhova is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell. She works on co-designing optics and algorithms to create better, smaller, and more capable cameras and microscopes.

Before Cornell, Monakhova was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT working with Sixian You and George Barbastathis, and supported by the MIT Postdoctoral Fellowship for Engineering Excellence. She obtained her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley with Laura Waller. During her Ph.D., she was affiliated with the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab and was supported by the NSF GRFP fellowship. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Computational Imaging.

Monakhova leads the Computational Imaging Lab @ Cornell.