Ming C. Lin
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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,[5] 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,[6] and for additional speedups to collision detection using bounding box hierarchies.[7] Her software libraries implementing these algorithms are widely used in commercial applications including computer aided design and computer games.[8] More generally, her research interests are in physically based modeling, haptics, robotics, 3D computer graphics, computational geometry, and interactive computer simulation.[3]
Biography
Lin did her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the UNC faculty in 1997.[3] She is the Editor in Chief Emeritus of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2011-2014).[9] She is currently a member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors and a member of Computing Research Association-Women (CRA-W) Board of Directors.
Lin is married to her frequent collaborator and UMD faculty colleague, Dinesh Manocha.[10]
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.[4] She has won many best-paper awards for her research,[4] 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."[8][11] In 2011 she was listed as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her research in geometric modeling and computer graphics,[12] 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".[13]
References
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- ↑ Ming Lin Named Chair of UMD Department of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, retrieved 2018-05-21.
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- ↑ 2012 Newly Elevated Fellows, IEEE, accessed 2011-12-10.
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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
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