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.  He received Alfred and Chella D. Moore fellowship and IBM
graduate fellowship in  1988  and  1991,  respectively, and a Junior Faculty
Award in 1992. He  was  selected  an  Alfred  P.  Sloan  Research Fellow,
received  NSF  Career  Award in 1995 and Office of Naval
Research Young Investigator Award in 1996, Honda Research Initiation Award in
1997,  and  Hettleman  Prize for scholarly achievement at UNC Chapel Hill in
1998. He has also 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 is an ACM Fellow.

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. His  research has been sponsored by
AMD/ATI, ARO, DARPA, Disney, DOE, Honda, Intel, Microsoft, NSF, NVIDIA, ONR,
RDECOM and Sloan Foundation. Some of the software systems developed by his
group on collision and geometric computations, interactive rendering, and
GPU-based algorithms have been widely downloaded and used by leading
commercial vendors. Manocha has served as a program committee  member or
program chair for more than 75 leading conferencs and also served as a guest
editor or member of editorial board of ten leading journals. He has supervised
45 MS and Ph.D. students.