Ming C. Lin
Ming C. Lin | |
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Residence | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
Nationality | American |
Fields | Computer scientist |
Institutions | North Carolina |
Alma mater | Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | John F. Canny |
Known for | collision detection, physical simulation |
Notable awards | IEEE VGTC VR Technical Achievement Award UNC Hettleman Prize |
Ming C. Lin is an American computer scientist, the John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1][2]
Research
Lin is known for her work on collision detection, and in particular for the Lin–Canny algorithm for maintaining the closest pair of features of two moving objects,[3] for the idea (with Cohen, Manocha, and Ponamgi) of using axis-aligned bounding boxes to quickly eliminate from consideration pairs of objects that are far from colliding,[4] and for additional speedups to collision detection using bounding box hierarchies.[5] Her software libraries implementing these algorithms are widely used in commercial applications including computer aided design and computer games.[6] More generally, her research interests are in physically based modeling, haptics, robotics, 3D computer graphics, computational geometry, and interactive computer simulation.[1]
Biography
Lin did her graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the UNC faculty in 1997.[1][7] She is the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.[8] She is married to her frequent collaborator and UNC faculty colleague, Dinesh Manocha; she was hired at UNC in the same year, 1997, that Manocha was tenured there.[7]
Awards and honors
In 2003, UNC gave Lin their Hettleman Prize for Scholarly and Artistic Achievements, and in 2007, she was named as the Beverly W. Long Distinguished Professor.[2] She has won many best-paper awards for her research,[2] and was given the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee 2010 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award "in recognition of her seminal contributions in the area of interactive physics-based interaction and simulation for virtual environments."[6][9] In 2011 she was listed as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her research in geometric modeling and computer graphics,[10] and she was listed as one of the 2012 IEEE Fellows for her "contributions to real-time physics-based interaction and simulation for virtual environments, robotics and haptics".[11]
References
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- ↑ ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Driving Innovation, Association for Computing Machinery, December 8, 2011.
- ↑ 2012 Newly Elevated Fellows, IEEE, accessed 2011-12-10.
External links
- Ming C. Lin home page at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- GAMMA research group at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Ming C. Lin's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
- American computer scientists
- American people of Chinese descent
- Computer graphics researchers
- Living people
- People from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- Researchers in geometric algorithms
- Taiwanese computer scientists
- Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
- Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Fellow Members of the IEEE
- Women computer scientists
- Taiwanese women scientists