Konik graduated with a Ph.D. from UIUC in Fall 2022. He now works at Google, Mountain View, California.

I was a Ph.D. student under Prof. Ivan Dokmanic in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was exploring physics-based learning paradigms for scientific inverse problems and I have recently been  interested in some fundamental aspects of generative modeling and their applications to inverse problems.  

Before starting my PhD, I earned my Master's in Mechanical Engineering working on computational modeling for crosslinked polymeric materials and studying shear stress in granular materials under Prof. Yuhang Hu and Prof. Ahmed Elbanna. I did my undergrad from IIT Delhi studying mechanical engineering. 

I love Indian chai, like racquet sports and pretend to like running and hitting the gym. 

Research interests

Wave imaging problems, inverse problems, generative modeling

Publications

2022

Globally Injective ReLU Networks
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Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2022
URL 
@article{puthawala2020globally,
  author  = {Michael Puthawala and Konik Kothari and Matti Lassas and Ivan Dokmani{\'c} and Maarten de Hoop},
  title   = {Globally Injective ReLU Networks},
  journal = {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
  year    = {2022},
  volume  = {23},
  number  = {105},
  pages   = {1--55},
  url     = {http://jmlr.org/papers/v23/21-0282.html}
}

2021

Trumpets: Injective flows for inference and inverse problems
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Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2021
More URL 
@inproceedings{kothari2021trumpets,
  title={Trumpets: Injective flows for inference and inverse problems},
  projectpage = {http://sada.dmi.unibas.ch/en/research/injective-flows},
  author={Kothari, Konik and Khorashadizadeh, AmirEhsan and de Hoop, Maarten and Dokmani{\'c}, Ivan},
  booktitle={Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence},
  pages={1269--1278},
  year={2021},
  organization={PMLR},
  url={https://proceedings.mlr.press/v161/kothari21a.html}}

2020

Learning the Geometry of Wave-Based Imaging
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Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2020
More URL 
@inproceedings{kothari2020fionet,
 author = {Kothari, Konik and de Hoop, Maarten and Dokmani{\'c}, Ivan},
 booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
 title = {Learning the Geometry of Wave-Based Imaging},
 projectpage = {http://sada.dmi.unibas.ch/en/research/imaging-with-waves},
 url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/5e98d23afe19a774d1b2dcbefd5103eb-Paper.pdf},
 volume = {33},
 year = {2020}
}

2019

Random mesh projectors for inverse problems
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International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019
URL 
@inproceedings{kothari2018random,
  title={Random mesh projectors for inverse problems},
  author={Konik Kothari* and Sidharth Gupta* and Maarten v. de Hoop and Ivan Dokmani{\'c}},
  booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year={2019},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=HyGcghRct7},
}