Dinesh Manocha is currently a Matthew Mason/Phi Delta Theta Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He has been a National Thousand Talent Scholar Professor at Zhejiang University, China. He co-leads a major research group with more than 20 members on geometric and simulation algorithms with applications to computer graphics, robotics and virtual environments. He has published more than 480 papers in the leading conferences and journals in computer graphics, robotics, computational geometry, databases, multimedia, high performance computing and symbolic computation, and received 15 best paper and time of test awards. He has been issued 8 patents. He has also served as program committee member or program chair of more than 100 leading conferences in these areas. Moreover, he has given more than 100 invited or keynote talks at conferences and distinguished lectures at other institutions. Manocha has served as a member of the editorial board or guest editor of eleven leading journals in computer graphics, robotics, geometry processing and scientific computing. He has won many awards including NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, Sloan Fellowship, IBM Fellowship, SIGMOD IndySort Winner, Honda Research Award, UNC Hettleman Prize, etc. He is a Fellow of ACM, AAAS, AAAI, and IEEE, and received Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

 Manocha has supervised more tha 65  M.S. and Ph.D. students over the last 25 years at UNC Chapel Hill. His research group has developed many well-known software packages for collision detection, triangulation, GPU-based algorithms, solid modeling and solving algebraic systems. These packages have been downloaded by more than 200,000 users worldwide and licensed to more than 55 industrial organizations. Manocha's research has been supported by ARO, Boeing, DARPA, IARPA, NIH, NSF, ONR, RDECOM, ONR, NIH, and many industrial partners; he has served as a Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on more than 70 grants. He was a co-founder of Impulsonic, a developer of physics-based audio simulation technologies, which was acquired by Valve Inc.