Dr. Kakani Katija is a Principal Engineer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and has a PhD in Bioengineering from the California Institute of Technology. As lead of the
Bioinspiration Lab, Kakani and her group investigates ways that imaging can enable observations of life in the ocean. By developing novel imaging and illumination tools (e.g.,
DeepPIV and
EyeRIS), automating the classification of underwater visual data using artificial intelligence (
FathomNet,
Ocean Vision AI), and integrating algorithms on vehicles (
ML-Tracking) for robotic vehicle missions (e.g.
Mesobot,
LRAUV) to consistently and persistently observe ocean life, their efforts will increase access to biology and related phenomena in the deep sea.
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