| Dinesh Manocha | |
|---|---|
| Fields | Computer scientist |
| Institutions | North Carolina |
| Alma mater | IIT Delhi Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | John F. Canny |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the ACM Sloan Fellow UNC Hettleman Prize |
Prof. Dinesh Manocha is an American computer scientist, the Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor of Computer Science[1] at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are in scientific computation, robotics, and 3D computer graphics.[1][2]
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Dinesh Manocha is currently a Phi Delta Theta/Mason Distinguished Professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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 45 MS and Ph.D. students. He is married to his frequent collaborator and UNC faculty colleague, Ming C. Lin; she was hired at UNC in the same year, 1997, that Manocha was tenured there.[3]
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. Some of the software systems developed by his group on collision and geometric computations, interactive rendering, and GPU-based algorithms have been widely downloaded (with more than 100,000 downloads) and used by leading commercial vendors.
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",[2][4] and is also an AAAS Fellow.[5]