Katya Mkrtchyan graduated from Yerevan State University, Armenia with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in 2006 and with a Master of Science degree in Informatics and Applied mathematics in 2008. Katya is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Riverside. She works in the Video Computing Lab, advised by Dr. Amit Roy-Chowdhury. 

Research interests: Image Analysis for Developmental Biology
- Image Registration
- Cell Segmentation
- Cell Tracking 

Personal Website: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~mkrtchyk/