Biography:Dinesh Manocha
Dinesh Manocha | |
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| Alma mater | IIT Delhi University of California, Berkeley |
| Awards | Fellow of the ACM Sloan Fellow UNC Hettleman Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer scientist |
| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Maryland, College Park |
| Doctoral advisor | John F. Canny |
 | This biographical article is written like a résumé. (August 2022) |
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.
Biography
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
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
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
- ↑ "Professor Dinesh Mancoha joins UMD". https://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2018/05/dinesh-manocha-joins-umd-paul-chrisman-iribe-professor-computer-science.
- ↑ "Dinesh Manocha | UMIACS" (in en). https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/people/dm.
- ↑ "UNC-CH CS Alumni Newsletter Issue 19". http://www.cs.unc.edu/NewsAndNotes/Issue20/.
- ↑ "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. http://www.cs.unc.edu/Events/News/manochaacm.html. Retrieved 29 December 2009.
- ↑ "About ACM Fellows" (in en). https://awards.acm.org/fellows.
- ↑ AAAS Members Elected as Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 2010. Accessed 15 July 2011
- ↑ "Elected AAAI Fellows" (in en-US). https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/.
External links
- Dinesh Manocha home page at the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
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