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Dr. '''Dinesh Manocha''' is an Indian-American [[computer scientist]] and the Paul Chrisman Iribe Professor of [[Computer science|Computer Science]] at [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland College Park]],<ref>{{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}}</ref> formerly at [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]. His research interests are in [[Computational science|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

Manocha has supervised more than 45 MS and Ph.D. students. He is married to his frequent collaborator and UNC faculty colleague, [[Ming C. Lin]].<ref>{{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}}</ref>

== 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 [[List of Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery|ACM Fellow]] in 2009 "for contributions to geometric computing and applications to computer graphics, robotics and GPU computing",<ref name="cs">{{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}}</ref><ref name="acm">[http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=4274957 ACM Fellows:Dinesh Manocha], [[Association for Computing Machinery]]. Accessed 15 July 2011.</ref> and is also an [[American Association for the Advancement of Science|AAAS]] Fellow.<ref>[http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0111fellows.shtml AAAS Members Elected as Fellows], [[American Association for the Advancement of Science]], December 2010. Accessed 15 July 2011</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.cs.unc.edu/~dm/ Dinesh Manocha home page] at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* [http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/ GAMMA research group] at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
* {{DBLP |name=Dinesh Manocha}}

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