Ming C. Lin

Last updated
Ming C. Lin
Ming CLin.jpg
Born
Taiwan
Education University of California, Berkeley (BS, MS, PhD)
Known for
Awards IEEE Fellow
ACM Fellow
IEEE VGTC VR Technical Achievement Award
UNC Hettleman Prize
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions University of Maryland, College Park
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis Efficient Collision Detection for Animation and Robotics  (1994)
Doctoral advisor John F. Canny

Ming Chien Lin is a Taiwanese-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]

Contents

Early life and education

Lin was born in Taiwan. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1980 and settled in California, where she attended Sunny Hills High School. [5] After high school, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in 1988, a Master of Science (M.S.) in 1991, and a Ph.D. in computer science and electrical engineering in 1993. She joined the UNC faculty in 1997. [3]

Career

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, [6] 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, [7] and for additional speedups to collision detection using bounding box hierarchies. [8] Her software libraries implementing these algorithms are widely used in commercial applications including computer aided design and computer games. [9] More generally, her research interests are in physically based modeling, haptics, robotics, 3D computer graphics, computational geometry, and interactive computer simulation. [3]

Lin is the Editor in Chief Emeritus of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2011-2014). [10] 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.

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." [9] [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]

Personal life

Lin is married to her frequent collaborator and UMD faculty colleague, Dinesh Manocha. [14]

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. 1 2 3 "Faculty Biography: Ming C. Lin". People. Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
  4. 1 2 3 Faculty Honors: Ming C. Lin, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, retrieved 2011-02-04.
  5. ↑ "Oral-History:Ming Lin". ETHW. 2023-07-19. Retrieved 2025-07-24.
  6. ↑ "Lin-Canny Closest Features Algorithm". Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
  7. ↑ 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 .
  8. ↑ 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 .
  9. 1 2 2010 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award citation Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine , IEEE VGTC, retrieved 2011-02-04.
  10. ↑ "About TVCG". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. IEEE Computer Society. 12 November 2008. Retrieved 2011-02-05.
  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.
  14. ↑ "UNC-CH CS Alumni Newsletter Issue 19". www.cs.unc.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.