Ming C. Lin
Ming C. Lin | |
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| 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. 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.