Education

2010-present: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (to be submitted on February 2013)

The University of Newcastle, Australia

Subject: Robustness and Control in Adaptive Optics for Astronomical Telescopes

Supervisors: Dr. James Welsh (the University of Newcastle, Australia), Prof. Peter Schreier (the University of Paderborn, Germany)  

2000-2006:  Diploma of Engineer [M. S. equivalent] in Physics,

Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), Russia

Subject: Optical Coding and Images Deconvolution using linear deconvolution filters
Supervisors: Prof. Manykin E.A. (Kurchatov Institute, Russia),  Dr. Bykovsky A.Y. (Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences), Dr. Starikov S.N. (MEPhI, Russia)

Research Experience

April 2009 - February 2010: Senior Engineer.

Optical Information Processing Lab, MEPhI, Russia

Research and development of high dynamic range imaging for optical-digital systems

May 2006- April 2009: Engineer

Optical Information Processing Lab, MEPhI, Russia

Objects recognition using Hybrid Optical-Digital correlators

 

Scholarships and Awards

2010 - Scholarship for postgraduate studies (PGRSS) from the University of Newcastle, Australia

2009 - Russian Federal exhibition ``Sci-Technical Creativity of Youth'' (Certificate of distinction)

2009 - Moscow Telecommunication Conference Award (Diploma of excellence)

2008 - UMNIK Fellowship (Russian Federal Fellowship Program for young scientists)

2008 - Russian Federal exhibition ``Sci-Technical Creativity of Youth'' (Certificate of distinction)

Professional Participation

Participation European Machine Vision Association EMVA 1288 Standard (Jan-May 2008)

Membership Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Regular Member since 2008

Membership IEEE Signal Processing Society Student Member since 2009.

 

 

Scientific Interests

Images processing:

images deconvolution, noise analysis in CCD/CMOS-registered images

Adaptive Optics: 

light propagation through turbulent media, wavefront sensing, numerical simulation of adaptive optic systems, optimal control in adaptive optics

 

 

 

Computer skills

OS: UNIX, Debian GNU/Linux, Windows NT

Scientific software: MATLAB/Octave, L^ATEX, gnuplot, Maple, Maxima, Scilab

Related software: nip2 / VIPS library, yorick, Doxygen, Subversion, Mercurial, Fossil

Programming languages:MATLAB, Python, Perl, Bash

 

 

Selected Bibliography

1

Sergey N. Starikov and Mikhail V. Konnik.
Using commercial photo camera's raw-based images in optical-digital correlator for pattern recognition.
In Proc. SPIE, 6977:69770R, 2008. 

PDF version of article

2

Starikov S.N. Konnik M.V., Manykin E.A.
Images reconstruction in optical-digital imaging systems based on ``wavefront coding'' principle.
In Proc. of Optoinformatics'08, Saint-Petersburg, 2008. 

PDF version of article

3

E.A. Manykin M.V. Konnik and S.N. Starikov.
Increasing linear dynamic range of commercial digital photocamera used in imaging systems with optical coding.
In OSAV'2008 Topical meeting, Saint-Petersburg, 2008. 

PDF version of article

4

N.N. Balan, M.V. Konnik, E.A. Manykin, V.G. Rodin, I.V. Solyakin, E.A. Shapkarina, and S.N. Starikov.
Optical-digital incoherent correlators for pattern recognition and imaging.
In 7 APCOM, Vladivostok, 2007. 

PDF version of article

5

Starikov S.N. Konnik M.V., Manykin E.A.
Image linearization of commercial digital camera for holographic optical-digital imaging systems.
In Holography Expo-2007, September 25-27, 2007. 

PDF version of article

6

Sergey N. Starikov, Nikita N. Balan, Mikhail V. Konnik, Vladislav G. Rodin, Ivan V. Solyakin, and Ekaterina A. Shapkarina.
Input scene restoration in pattern recognition correlator based on digital photo camera.
In Proc. SPIE, 6574:65740J, 2007. 

PDF version of article

7

M.V. Konnik, E.A. Manykin, and S.N.Starikov.
Digital image restoration in image systems with optical coding.
In Holography Expo-2006, September 26-28, 2006. 

PDF version of article

Participating in EMVA 1288 standard

Participating in EMVA 1288 standard. 

 

Activities and Interests

Writing:Technical writer: A column on the UNIX-based technology since June 2006 in Russian, and a column about digital image processing in English since August 2008