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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]
Lin was born in Taiwan.[5] 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]
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.
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]
Lin is married to her frequent collaborator and UMD faculty colleague, Dinesh Manocha.[14]
