Dinesh Manocha is an Indian-American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus ( ...

and the Paul Chrisman Iribe Professor of

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includin ...

University of Maryland College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mar ...

, formerly at

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which r ...

. His research interests are in

scientific computation Computational science, also known as scientific computing or scientific computation (SC), is a field in mathematics that uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems. It is an area of science that spans many disc ...

, robotics, self-driving cars,

affective computing Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning computer science, psychology, and cognitive science. While so ...

, virtual and augmented reality and

3D computer graphics 3D computer graphics, or “3D graphics,” sometimes called CGI, 3D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for t ...

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

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.

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 ACM or A.C.M. may refer to: Aviation * AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile * Air chief marshal * Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting * Air cycle machine * Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia Computing ...

in 2009 "for contributions to geometric computing and applications to computer graphics, robotics and GPU computing", and is also an

AAAS AAAS may refer to: * American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a learned society and center for policy research; the publisher of the journal ''Dædalus'' * American Association for the Advancement of Science, an organization that supports scientifi ...

Fellow.AAAS Members Elected as Fellows

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsi ...

, December 2010. Accessed 15 July 2011

References

External links

Dinesh Manocha home page
at the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland * {{DEFAULTSORT:Manocha, Dinesh Computer graphics researchers Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Indian computer scientists IIT Delhi alumni Living people Researchers in geometric algorithms University of California, Berkeley alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Year of birth missing (living people)