Dinesh Manocha is an Indian-American computer scientist and the Paul Chrisman Iribe Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland College Park,[1] formerly at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are in scientific computation, robotics, self-driving cars, affective computing, virtual and augmented reality and 3D computer graphics.

Dinesh Manocha
Alma materIIT Delhi
University of California, Berkeley
AwardsFellow of the ACM
Sloan Fellow
UNC Hettleman Prize
Scientific career
FieldsComputer scientist
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Maryland, College Park
Doctoral advisorJohn F. Canny

Biography

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Dinesh Manocha is currently a Paul Chrisman Iribe Professor Professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his B.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1987; M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California at Berkeley in 1990 and 1992, respectively.[2]

Manocha has supervised more than 45 MS and Ph.D. students.[citation needed] He is married to his frequent collaborator and UMD faculty colleague, Ming C. Lin.[3]

Research

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Manocha's research interests include geometric computing, interactive computer graphics, physics-based simulation and robotics. He has published more than 280 papers in these areas.[citation needed]

Awards and honors

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Manocha has received more than 11 best paper and panel awards at the ACM SuperComputing, ACM Multimedia, ACM Solid Modeling, Pacific Graphics, IEEE VR, IEEE Visualization, ACM SIGMOD, ACM VRST, CAD, I/ITSEC and Eurographics Conferences. He was selected as an ACM Fellow in 2009 "for contributions to geometric computing and applications to computer graphics, robotics and GPU computing",[4][5] and is also an AAAS Fellow[6] and AAAI Fellow.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Dinesh Mancoha joins UMD".
  2. ^ "Dinesh Manocha | UMIACS". www.umiacs.umd.edu. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  3. ^ "UNC-CH CS Alumni Newsletter Issue 19". www.cs.unc.edu. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Scientist recognized for work in geometric computing, computer graphics and robotics". Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 3 December 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
  5. ^ "About ACM Fellows". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  6. ^ AAAS Members Elected as Fellows Archived 28 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine, American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 2010. Accessed 15 July 2011
  7. ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
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