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,^[1] 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.

Dinesh Manocha
Alma mater	IIT Delhi University of California, Berkeley
Awards	Fellow of the ACM Sloan Fellow UNC Hettleman Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Computer scientist
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Maryland, College Park
Doctoral advisor	John F. Canny

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.^[2]

Manocha has supervised more than 45 MS and Ph.D. students.^{[citation needed]} He is married to his frequent collaborator and UMD faculty colleague, Ming C. Lin.^[3]

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]}

Alibaba Group

Chinese tech company Alibaba provided $125,000 in funding to a research team led by Manocha to develop an urban surveillance software that can "classify the personality of each pedestrian and identify other biometric features," raising concerns that his research directly contributed to China’s surveillance state.^{[4][better source needed]}

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",^[5][6] and is also an AAAS Fellow^[7] and AAAI Fellow.^[8]