Dinesh Manocha

Dinesh Manocha is a Paul Chrisman-Iribe chair in the Computer Science, Electrical, and Computer Engineering Department and distinguished university professor at University of Maryland, College Park. His research interests include virtual environments, physically-based modeling, and robotics. He has published more than 750 papers and supervised 50 Ph.D. dissertations. He is a fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and an National Academy of Inventors member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy. He received the B ́ezier Award from the Solid Modeling Association, the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi, and the Distinguished Career Award from Washington Academy of Sciences. Dr. Manocha holds a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.