Dinesh Manocha
{{Short description|Indian-American computer scientist and professor}}
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University of California, Berkeley
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Dinesh Manocha is an Indian-American computer scientist and the Paul Chrisman Iribe Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland College Park,{{cite news |title=Professor Dinesh Mancoha joins UMD |url=https://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2018/05/dinesh-manocha-joins-umd-paul-chrisman-iribe-professor-computer-science}} 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 of Computer Science at the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park. He received his B.Tech. degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1987. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1990 and 1992, respectively.{{Cite web|url=https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/people/dm|title=Dinesh Manocha {{!}} UMIACS|website=www.umiacs.umd.edu|language=en|access-date=2020-01-07}}
Manocha has supervised more than 45 MS and Ph.D. students.{{citation needed|date=November 2022}} He is married to his frequent collaborator and UMD faculty colleague, Ming C. Lin.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cs.unc.edu/NewsAndNotes/Issue20/|title=UNC-CH CS Alumni Newsletter Issue 19|website=www.cs.unc.edu|access-date=2020-01-07}}
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|date=August 2022}}
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",{{cite web|url=http://www.cs.unc.edu/Events/News/manochaacm.html|title=Scientist recognized for work in geometric computing, computer graphics and robotics|date=3 December 2009|publisher=Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|accessdate=29 December 2009}}{{Cite web |title=About ACM Fellows |url=https://awards.acm.org/fellows |access-date=2022-08-23 |website=awards.acm.org |language=en}} and is also an AAAS Fellow[http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0111fellows.shtml AAAS Members Elected as Fellows] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028132953/http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0111fellows.shtml |date=28 October 2012 }}, American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 2010. Accessed 15 July 2011 and AAAI Fellow.{{Cite web |title=Elected AAAI Fellows |url=https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/ |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=AAAI |language=en-US}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.cs.umd.edu/people/dmanocha Dinesh Manocha home page] at the Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
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Category:Computer graphics researchers
Category:2009 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Category:Indian computer scientists
Category:Researchers in geometric algorithms
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni
Category:University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
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Category:Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science