Shiguang Liu Author

Shiguang Liu received a Ph.D. from the State Key Lab of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University, P.R. China. He is currently a professor with the School of Computer Science and Technology, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, P.R. China. His research interests include computer graphics, image/video editing, visualization, virtual reality, etc.

Dinesh Manocha is Paul Chrisman-Iribe Chair in Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland College Park. He is also the Phi Delta Theta/Matthew Mason Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include virtual environments, physically based modeling, and robotics. His group has developed a number of packages for multi-agent simulation, robot planning, and physics-based modeling that are standard in the field and licensed to more than 60 commercial vendors. He has published more than 600 papers and supervised 40 Ph.D. dissertations. He is an inventor of 10 patents, which are licensed to industry. He is a Fellow of AAAI, AAAS, ACM, and IEEE, member of ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, and received the Bézier Award from Solid Modeling Association. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi the Distinguished Career in Computer Science Award from Washington Academy of Sciences. He was a co-founder of Impulsonic, a developer of physics-based audio simulation technologies, which was acquired by Valve Inc. in November 2016.