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# Ming Lin

## Professor

## Dr. Barry Mersky and Capital One Endowed Professor; Distinguished University Professor

Email: lincs[.dot.]umd[.dot.]edu
Phone:
(301) 405-2662
Location:
IRB 5162
Website:
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~lin
Google Scholar:
ugFNit4AAAAJ
Wikipedia Bio:
en.wikipedia.org
Education:

- Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
- M.S., University of California at Berkeley
- B.S., University of California at Berkeley

Appointments:
CS, UMIACS, ECE
Research Areas:
AI and Robotics, Computer Vision and Machine Perception, Graphics Visualization and VR AR, High Performance and Scientific Computing, Human Computer Interaction, Information Retrieval and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Machine Learning and Data Science

## Honors and Awards

Year | Type | Org. | Name
--- | --- | --- | ---
2022 | Fellow | NAI | NAI Fellow
2022 | Member | IEEE | IEEE VGTC Virtual Reality Academy
2021 | Award | Robohub | 50 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About
2020 | Member | ACM | SIGGRAPH Academy For contributions in collision detection, physics simulation, natural phenomena, crowd animation, haptics, and sound rendering.
2020 | Award |  | Distinguished Career in Computer Science, Washington Academy of Sciences
2019 | UMD | UMD | Univ Maryland Distinguished University Professor
2018 | Award | IEEE | Test of Time Award Paper Nominee, Conf. on Robotics and Automation
2017 | Fellow | Eurographics | Eurographics Fellow "in recognition of her outstanding research contributions in physically-based modeling, virtual environments, sound rendering, haptics and animation"
2015 | Member | IEEE | IEEE Board of Governors Computer Society (3-Year Term)
2015 | Award | IEEE | IEEE Computer Society, Society of Golden Core
2012 | Fellow | IEEE | IEEE Fellow for "contributions to real-time physics-based interaction and simulation for virtual environments, robotics and haptics"
2011 | Fellow | ACM | ACM Fellow For contribution in geometric computing and physics-based modeling for computer graphics, virtual environments, and robotics.
2010 | Award | IEEE | IEEE VGTC, Technical Achievement Award "in recognition of her seminal contributions in the area of interactive physics-based interaction and simulation for virtual environments."
2003 | Award |  | Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement
1998 | Award | IBM | Junior Faculty Development Award
1997 | Award |  | Honda Research Initiation Award
1995 | Award | NSF | Young Faculty Career Award