Our People
A team of researchers and students at the University of Maryland, united by a shared mission to build AI systems that understand and reason about all sound.
Prof. Dinesh Manocha is the Paul Chrisman Iribe Endowed Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He leads the GAMMA Lab, where his research focuses on audio general intelligence — developing AI systems that understand, reason, and interact with the acoustic world. His work spans audio language models, multimodal learning, self-supervised audio representation, and evaluation benchmarks. He has published over 600 papers and has received numerous awards including the ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and NSF Career Award.
