Dinesh Manocha

Dinesh Manocha is an Indian-American computer scientist and the Paul Chrisman Iribe Professor of Computer Science at University of Maryland College Park, 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.

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