Geometric Algorithms for Modeling, Motion, and Animation research group: UNC Chapel Hill (1992-2018); University of Maryland, College Park (2018 onwards)
College Park, MD
Joined October 2009
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Congratulations to Mohamed Elnoor @mohamedbelnoor on his Ph.D. dissertation defense! 🎉🎓
His dissertation, “Proprioception-based Perception and Physically Grounded Vision-Language Reasoning for Autonomous Navigation,” brings together proprioception, VLM reasoning, and real-world robotic navigation across legged and wheeled platforms.
Huge congratulations on this milestone, Mohamed! 🤖👏
Great to see this work from our group highlighted by @umdcs! CyberForge generates realistic software vulnerabilities to train defensive AI agents. Congrats to Manan @mananifesto, Prof. Manocha @dmanocha, and the team!
How can AI help defend software before attackers exploit it?
@UMDCS Ph.D. student Manan Suri and Prof. Dinesh Manocha are part of the team behind CyberForge, a framework that generates realistic vulnerabilities to train defensive AI agents.
Read more: go.umd.edu/CyberForge-9-2026
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🚀 Excited to share our group’s #IROS2026 accepted papers!
This year’s works span autonomous driving, trajectory prediction, robotic perception, multi-robot coordination, UAV action recognition, VLA robustness, and locomotion learning.
Huge congrats to all authors and collaborators! 🧵👇
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🏃 TransCurriculum: Multi-Dimensional Curriculum Learning for Fast & Stable Locomotion
Prakhar Mishra*, Amir Hossain Raj, Xuesu Xiao @XuesuXiao , Dinesh Manocha @dmanocha
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2603.14156
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🎉 Congrats again to all authors and collaborators!
Looking forward to presenting these works at #IROS2026 @ieeeiros and discussing robotics, autonomy, perception, learning, and safety with the community in Pittsburgh.
#IROS #Robotics #AutonomousDriving #MultiRobotSystems #RobotLearning
Huge congratulations to Pooja Guhan @GuhanPooja for giving a wonderful student representative speech at the CMNS hooding ceremony! 🎓
“We are not intimidated by not knowing, we are trained by it.”
A beautiful message for all graduates and researchers. Proud to see GAMMA represented so well! 🎉
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Congratulations to all GAMMA members graduating this year! 🎓
We were happy to celebrate together at the GAMMA graduation gathering and see so many lab members, alumni, and friends come back for this special week. Wishing everyone the very best for the upcoming hooding ceremonies and their next chapter! 🎉
Congratulations to our alum Rohan Chandra @rohanchandra30 on receiving the Early Career Award from the Washington Academy!
A well-deserved recognition of his outstanding research contributions and early-career impact. Excited to see his continued success! 🎉
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👏 @UofMaryland celebrated faculty members whose work has earned them election to national academies and other leading organizations. @umdcs faculty and affiliates @MingCLinCS, @dmanocha, Uzi Vishkin and John Baras were among those recognized.
Read more: go.umd.edu/NationalAcademy-5…
