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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 eight best paper and panel awards at the ACM SuperComputing, ACM Multimedia, ACM Solid Modeling, Pacific Graphics, IEEE VR, IEEE Visualization and Eurographics Conferences.

His research interests include geometric and solid modeling, interactive computer graphics, physically-based modeling, virtual environments, robotics and scientific computation. His research has been sponsored by ARO, DARPA, DOE, Honda, Intel, NSF, ONR and Sloan Foundation. He has published more than 210 papers in leading conferences and journals on computer graphics, geometric and solid modeling, robotics, symbolic and numeric computation, virtual reality, molecular modeling and computational geometry. He has served as a program committee member for many leading conferences on virtual reality, computer graphics, computational geometry, geometric and solid modeling, animation and molecular modeling. He was the program co-chair for the first ACM Siggraph workshop on simulation and interaction in virtual environments and program chair of first ACM Workshop on Applied Computational Geometry. He was the guest co-editor of special issues of International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Graphical Models and Imaging Processing, and Journal of Applicable Algebra.