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"M. C. Lin" redirects here. For the chemist, see Lin Ming-chang.

Ming C. Lin is an American computer scientist and a Barry Mersky and Capital One Endowed Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is also the former chair of the Department of Computer Science.[1][2] Prior to moving to Maryland in 2018, Lin was the John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[3][4]

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

  1. ^ Ming Lin Named Chair of UMD Department of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park, retrieved 2018-05-21.
  2. ^ "Ming C. Lin". University of Maryland Department of Computer Science. 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  3. ^ a b c "Faculty Biography: Ming C. Lin". People. Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
  4. ^ a b c Faculty Honors: Ming C. Lin, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, retrieved 2011-02-04.
  5. ^ "Lin-Canny Closest Features Algorithm". Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
  6. ^ Cohen, Jonathan D.; Lin, Ming C.; Manocha, Dinesh; Ponamgi, Madhav (1995), "I-COLLIDE: an interactive and exact collision detection system for large-scale environments", Proceedings of the 1995 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D graphics (I3D '95), p. 189, doi:10.1145/199404.199437, ISBN 978-0897917360, S2CID 364983.
  7. ^ Gottschalk, S.; Lin, M. C.; Manocha, D. (1996), "OBBTree: a hierarchical structure for rapid interference detection", Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH '96), pp. 171–180, doi:10.1145/237170.237244, ISBN 978-0897917469, S2CID 7407408.
  8. ^ a b 2010 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award citation Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, IEEE VGTC, retrieved 2011-02-04.
  9. ^ "About TVCG". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  10. ^ "UNC-CH CS Alumni Newsletter Issue 19". www.cs.unc.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  11. ^ "Honorable Mentions", Herald-Sun, April 24, 2010, archived from the original on September 27, 2011.
  12. ^ ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Driving Innovation Archived 2011-12-09 at the Wayback Machine, Association for Computing Machinery, December 8, 2011.
  13. ^ 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
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